Cosmography and Geography in Early Indian Literature c9.2

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Addisthān, same as Adhiṣṭhāna or Śrīnagara, city 158-59 Adeisaga, locality 141 Adeisathra, town 132 Adeisathroi, people of the region of the Sahyādri mountain 133 Adeisathron, same as the Sahyādri range or Western Ghāṭs 125, 127, 133 Adhama-Kairāta, people 96 Adhiśrotra, people 92n Adhiṣṭhāna, same as Addisthān, city 158-59 Adhra, v. l. Sādhra, people 89 Adisdara, town, probably Ahicchatra in the Bareilly District 129 Aditi, goddess 11 and n Adittahaur, locality 158 Adraistai, people 76n Adrapana, town 130 Adris, v. l. Rouadis, same as Irāvatī or Rāvī, river 125, 128 Aegidii, island people probably of Goa 116 Afghan, people, 159 Afghanistan, country 33, 59, 74 ; Northern 73, 114 ; Southern 74 Africa, continent 120n ; Northern 59 ; North-Eastern 51 Agalassoi, people living between the Jhelam and the Chenab 75, 76n Aganagora, town 139-40 Agara, town 132 agate, akik, product 120n Agathou, island 142 Agimoitha, locality 142 Aginnatai, people 142 Agnidhra, king of the Jambu-dvipa 48-49 ; people 96 (Agnijya), 97n Agnihotragṛha, same as Prājāpatya or Prayāga 107 Agnījya, mistake for Agnidhra 96 Agnimāla, sea 51 ; Arabian coast near Aden or portion of the Somali coast according to some 61 Agni Purāṇa 53n Agrinagara, city 131 Agriophagoi; see Poulindai 132 aguru, product 103 Ahicchatra, capital of Pañcāla or North Pañcāla 36n, 71, 99 ; across the Gaṅgā 152 ; see Adisdara 129 ;

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same as Pratyagratha 104 Ahindravara, continent and ocean 58 Ahopāp, river 84 Ahreng, territory 153 Āhuka, people 76 ; same as Khāṇḍavaprastha 106 Aihole inscription of Pulakeśin II 79-80 Aikakaccha, Ekakaccha, people 94n Aikanetra, Ekanetra, people 96n Aikapāda, Ekapāda, people 92n Ailika, people 93 Ainabhalla, Enabhalla, people 98n Aindra, constellation 95 *Ain-i-Akbarī* 53n, 77 Aioi, people 123, 135 Airāka (Iraq), country 109 Airāvata, diggaja of the east 43n Airāvata, Indra’s elephant 46 Airāvata, park 44 Airāvata, territory, sometimes identified with Uttara-Kuru 53, 56 Airāvata-varṣa, same as Uttara-Kuru 57 Airrhadoi (Kirāta), people 137 Aisika, people 79 *Aitareya Āraṇyaka* 79 *Aitareya Brāhmaṇa*, 15, 20, 29 ; on the distance between the earth and the sky 10 ; on the earth girdled by ocean 13 ;

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on the five geographical divisions 15 Aja, people 25, 27 Ajanābha, name sometimes applied to the Bhārata-varṣa 53 Aja-patha, locality 68 ajina, product 103 Ajina, island continent and ocean 58 Ajinavara, island continent and ocean 58 Ajinavarāvabhāsa, island continent and ocean 58 Ajmer, locality 102 Ajodaha (Ayodhyā), locality 155 Akadra, locality 138 Akaṇin, people 93 Ākara, territory identified with East Malwa 82, 94n, 163 Akhasa land 149 akīk, nānā-varṇa-prastara, product 120n Akinakai, people 144 Akni (’O-ki-ni), Agni, territory 151n Akour, city 136 Akṣaya, locality in the eastern region, probably the Akṣaya-vaṭa 62 Alakamandā, capital of Uttara-Kuru 42 Alakanda, Indian form of Alexandria 74-75 Alana, mountain 147-48 Alanoi Skythai, Śaka clan 147 Alanorsoi, people 147-48 Alasanda, Indian form of *Alexandria* 74-75 ; city or land 67n, 68 Al-Bīrūnī, Muslim savant 47-48, 55, 70, 74, 77, 91, 94, 96, 98, 154 ; on the location of the Puṣkara-dvīpa 50 Al-Daibal, port near Karachi 159 Aleppey, locality 117 Alexander of Epirus 60 ; of Macedon 112 Alexandreia Eskhate, town 146 Alexandreia Oxeiane, town 146 Alexandria, port in Egypt 60, 121n Alikhorda, town 144 Alina, people 25 Alishang-Kunar-Bajaur valley 76n Alīspur (Ellichpur), town 157 A-li-ya-t’i-sha (Ārya-deśa), Chinese name of India 34n Allahābād, city 72, 86;

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District 152 Allahābād pillar inscription 164 Allosygne, mart 124 Almansūra (Baṅmanābād), locality 157 Aloe, town 135 Alor, city 77n Alosango, locality 141 Alūka, people 96 Alwakwak, island 160 Alwar, territory 156 Alwar-Bharatpur-Jaipur region 27 Amakatis, city 129 Amala, territory 100-01 Amareis, people 144 Amarakoṣa, lexicon 18, 43n Amara-parvata, mountain in the western region 65 Amarāvatī, locality 153 Amarkantak range 81, 85 Ambala, locality 74, 96, 154 Ambāla, probably the same as Ambala 96 Ambara, probably the same as Ambala 97n Ambaṣṭha, people 92n; of the western region 65; see Abastanoi 76n Ambaṣṭhya, king of the Ambaṣṭha 29 Ambhā, river of the Kuśa-dvīpa 49 Amdhala, territory 100 Aminakhai, people 140 Amṛtā, river of the Plakṣa-dvīpa 49 Amśumatī, river 24 Amu Darya, same as the Oxos (Oxus), river 143 Amuṣṭha, mistake for Ambaṣṭha 92 Anagha, people of the eastern region 64 Anahilapura-pattana, same as Anhilvara 157