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Cosmography and Geography in Early Indian Literature c9.39

Cosmography and Geography in Early Indian Literature c9.39

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c9.39

Iberingai, people 140 Ikarta, city 136 Ikṣu, river in the Śāka-dvīpa 50 Ikṣu, same as Ikṣumatī, river 84 Ikṣulā, river 88 Ikṣvāku, king 28 Ikṣvāku dynasty 11n Ilāmuri-deśam (Lamri in North Sumatra), territory 67n Ilaṅgāśogam (near Ligor), locality 67n I-lan-na-po-fa-to, modern Uren, locality 152 Ilāvṛta, also called Meru, varṣa (division) of the Jambu-dvīpa around Mt. Meru, called Videha by the Jains 48, 52-53 Imaos, same as Himavat, mountain range 121, 125, 140, 146, 148-49 Indabara (Indraprastha), city 129 Indaprathai (Indraprastha, Indra-dvīpa), territory 140 Inde, city 134 India, 154 ; beyond the Ganges 148-49 ; its coasts 159 ; Eastern 34 ; Intra-Gangetic 125 ; Northern 60 ; Southern 79, 116n ; Western 81 Indian Ocean, 33, 137, 163 ; Southern 163 Indian subcontinent 33, 37 Indian teak, in Babylonia 14n Indikomordana, town 145 Indoi, people 141 Indo-Scythia (Śakasthāna) 51, 130-31 Indra, god 11, 14n, 45-46 Indra-dvīpa, same as Burma or Indochina or Indonesia 38, 54-55, 67n, 90, 140 Indradyumna-saras, lake 90 ; in the eastern region 67n Indrahāsa, Indra-maru, people 89 Indrakīla, mountain 103 ; same as Mandara 104