Cosmography and Geography in Early Indian Literature c9.20
Cosmography and Geography in Early Indian Literature c9.20
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Brahmottara, people and distriet 77, 89, 103 Brakhmanai Magoi (Maga-Brāhmaṇa), people, 133 Brakhme, city 133 Bramagara, locality 123 Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad 12n Bṛhadgṛha country 81 ; mountain 103 ; same as Kārūṣa 104-06 Bṛhaspati, divinity 11 Bṛhatsaṃhitā 90-91, 92n, 93n, 94n, 95n, 96n, 97n, 98 Bridama, town 133 Broach, ancient Bhṛgukaccha, locality 85, 153 ; see Bihroj 157, 160 ; see Barygaza 112, 122, 131 Bucephalus (Bukephalus) Alexandria, city 114 Buddha, founder of Buddhism 19n, 35, 42 ; his birth-place 161 ; his foot-prints 162 ; called Śākya-muni 161 Buddhist— canonical works 35 ; relics 162 ; monuments 60 Bühler, G. 61n Bukephala, Bucephala, city 128 Bundelkhand region 86, 153, 156 Buṛhi-Rāptī, river 84 Byltai, people 446 Byzanteion (Byzantium), probably the same as Vizadrog, port 122 Byzantium (Byzanteion), probably the same as Vizadrog, port 116 Cabolitic, from the name Kābul 115 Caenitae, probably the same as the Oyster Rocks 116 Caidika, same as the Cedi people 94n Caidya, same as Dāhala, Traipura, Cedi, etc. 104, 106-07 Caitanya, Vaiṣṇava saint of Bengal 88 Caitraratha, forest 45 Cakora, mountain 103 Cakora, people 91n Cakra-giri, hill in the Aṅga-dvīpa in the western sea 105n Cakravāla, same as the Lokāloka, mythical mountain on the horizon 40, 104 Cakravāla-cakravartin, title 39 Cakravāla-parvata, mythical mountain 38-39 Cakravāla-rājya 38 Cakravarti-kṣetra 19, 65, 109, 163 Cakravartin, imperial designation 19, 37, 102 Cakravat, mountain in the west 63, 95n Cakṣu river, same as the Vamkṣu or Oxus 82, 86, 89 Calliene, same as Kalyāṇa, city 115-16 Cālukya, country 79 ; Eastern 153 Cālya, country 107 Camara, probably the same as Kāverī-pattana 118 Cāmara, mistake for Dāmara 98n cāmara, product 103 Camatkārapura, same as Devīkoṭṭa, locality 107 Cambay, Gulf of, 85 ; see Kanbāyat 160 Cammoni, village 113 ; see Kamoni 122 Campā, capital of Aṅga near Bhāgalpur in Bihar 35 and n, 36 and n, 77, 99, 104, 152 ; also called Mālinī, Lomapādapūr and Karṇapūr 104 Campā, see Saba or Zabai, city 138 Campaka-dvīpa, also called Kuśa-dvīpa 105n Campāraṇya, modern Champāraṇ, territory 109 Caṇa, locality 117 Canary Islands 121n Cāñcikapattana, mistake for Kāñcika° 94n Cañcuka, people 95n Caṇḍakhāra, mistake for ca Tukhāra 96 Candanā, river 85 Candanādri, same as the Malaya range 105