Cosmography and Geography in Early Indian Literature c9.37

c9.37

heaven, its door 21n; its Buddhist conception 43 Helmund, river, 153 Hemagiri, mountain 95n Hemakuḍya, people and locality 93n, 105n Hemakūṭa, mountain separating the Kimpuruṣa and Hari varṣas 53 Hemakūṭa, name applied to the Kimpuruṣa-varṣa 53 Hemakūṭa, people 93 Hemaśaila, mountain in the Kuśa-dvīpa 49 Hematāla, people 97n Hematālaka (Hematāla), people 96 Hematāraka (Hematālaka), people 96 Heorta, town 140 Heptanesis, group of seven islands 137 Herakles (Heracles), Greek god 35n Herambaka, people located in the southern region 64 Herodotus, Greek historian 34n, 60 Herone, rocky shoal 113 Hiḍimbā river 103 Hili-Balurghat region 165 Hillebrandt, on Iranian tribes and rivers in the Ṛgveda 14n Hi-lu-sih-min-kien (Rui-Samangan), territory 151n Hima, name applied to the Bhāratavarṣa 53 Himācala, same as the Himavat, mountain range 162 Himādri, see Emodos, mountain range 149 Himagiri, same as the Himavat, mountain range, etc. 94 Himālaya, mountain range 103, 108 Himalayan region 37 Himalayas, mountain 40, 69, 152; Eastern, see Emodos 149 Himatāla, territory 153 Himavarṣa, same as the Bhārata-varṣa 88 Himavat, same as the Himalayas 17 and n, 21, 41-42, 46, 54, 56, 63, 82, 96, 97n, 102-03 ; Southern 16 ; see Imaos 121 ; varṣa-parvata separating Bhārata and Kimpuruṣa 53 Hi-mo-ta-lo (Himatāla), territory 153 Hind, India 154 Hiṇḍivā, v.l. Hiḍimbā, river 103 Hindu, Indian 160 ; tribes 154 Hindu, the river Sindhu and the people of its valley 34n Hindu Kush, see Paropanisadai, Paropanisus 126, 143 Hindustān, India 34n Hiṅga, people 98 Hinglaj, locality 98 Hiṅgula, island-continent and ocean 58 Hiṅgulāja, Hinglaj, locality 108 Hiṅgu-pīṭha, same as Hinglaj, locality 109 Hippalus, navigator 117 Hippokoura (in the Kolhapur region), city 122, 134 Hippophagoi Skythai, Śaka clan 149 Hiraṇmaya, ruler of the Hiraṇmaya-varṣa 48 Hiraṇmaya, division (varṣa) of the Jambudvīpa 52 ; same as Hiraṇvat 53 Hiraṇmayī, river 24 Hiraṇvata (Hiraṇvat), same as the Hiraṇmaya-varṣa 40n Hiraṇyabāhu, same as Śoṇa, Hiraṇyavaha, river 104 Hiraṇyanābha, same as Maināka, mountain 106 Hiraṇyaparvata, modern Uren 152 Hiraṇyavaha (Hiraṇyavāha), see Hiraṇyabāhu, river 104 Hissar District 157 Hiuen-tsang, Chinese pilgrim 28, 77-79; 151, 162 ; on the shape of India 52n Hlādinī (Irawady), river 56, 90 ; following towards the east 88 Hlāsa, same as Lāsika 98, 100