Cosmography and Geography in Early Indian Literature c9.19

c9.19

Birbhum District 88 Bitter Lake 60 Biyatta (Vitastā), river, 158 Bodha, people 72 Bodhan, locality, ancient Paudanya 80 Bodhisattva, divinity 45 Bogra District 78, 137, 152, 161, 164 Bokhara, see Pu-ho, territory 151n Bolan Pass (in Baluchistan) 27 Bolar-Shāh, royal title 158 Bolingai, people 133 Bolor, territory 153, 159 ; see Po-lu-lo 151 Bonis, town 130 Boraita, town 140 Boudaia, town 131 Brahmamāla, people of the eastern region 62 Brahman, god 40, 45 ; his sabhā 45 Brāhmaṇa inhabitants of the Middle country 54 ; of the Kuru-Pañcāla country 17n Brāhmaṇa literature 27 Brāhmaṇaspati, deity 11 Brāhmaṇavāha, modern Bahmanābād 101, 103 ; see Bamhawā 151 Brahm-āṇḍa, cosmic egg 10 Brahmāṇḍa Purāṇa 37n, 52n, 53n, 70 Brāhmaṇī, same as Brahmāṇī, river 87 Brahmanical monuments in Indo-China and Indonesia 60 Brahmapura, territory 98n ; see P’o-lo-hih-mo-pu-lo, 151 Brahmapuraka, same as Brahmapura or its people 97 Brahmaputra, same as Lauhitya, river 84, 103-09 ; Upper 139 Brahmaputrī, same as Sarasvatī, river 104 Brahmarṣi-deśa, holy land 17n, 27 Brahmavarcasa, holy land 17 and n Brahmāvarta, holy land 17n Brahmavasati, locality 95n Brahmavedi, same as Kurukṣetra, Pañcarāmahradāntara, Dharmakṣetra Vinaśana, Kurujāṅgala 106-07