Cosmography and Geography in Early Indian Literature c9.40

c9.40

Indra-maru, Indrahāsa, people in the western region 67n Indraparvata, mountain near Videha 64 Indraprastha, capital of the Kurus in the suburbs of Delhi 35n, 71, 109 ; see Indaprathai 140 ; see Indabara 129 Indravardhana, same as India 34n Indu, India, its people being called the Indian 34n Indujā, see Revā, river 104 Induprastha (Indraprastha), same as Yoginīpura, city 107 Indus (Sindhu), river 39n, 75, 126, 128, 130 In-po-kin, territory 153 Iomousa, city 128 Iran, North-Eastern 73 Iranian autochthon 74 Iraq, country 109 Irāvatī (Rāvī), river 84, 103 ; see Adris or Rouadis 125 ; see Irāwa 158 Irāwa (Irāvatī, Rāvī), river 158 Iriṇa, Rann [of Kutch] 112 Īśadhara, mountain around the Meru 39 Iṣīka, people 106 Īśāna, god 45 Island Continents, four 40 ; seven 47 Island of the Blest 121n Issedon Skythike, town 149-50 Issedones, people 150 Italian wine 115 Ithagouroi, people 150 Ithagouros, city 128 ivory, product 120n Jabalpur District 82, 156 Jadūra (Rājauri), city 156 Jaganmohana-paṇḍita, author 110 Jagannātha, deity and the district around his temple 108-09 Jagannātha-purī, same as Purī, city 162n Jāguḍa, people and territory 75, 103, 153 Jahāhuti, territory 101 Jahnu, clan 28 Jahrāwar, locality 74 Jailam (Jhelam), river 158-59 Jain canonical works 35 Jain writers, on the division of the Jambu-dvīpa 56 Jaipur-Alwar region 72 Jajāhūti (Jejākabhukti, Jajhoti in Bundelkhand), territory 156 Jajhoti, see Jajāhuti, 153, 156 Jajjamau, locality 155 Jajjanīr, locality 158 Jāla, antara-dvīpa 105n Jalada, ruler of a part of the Śāka-dvīpa 48 Jalabālaka, same as Mt. Vindhya 104 Jaladhara, mountain in the Śāka-dvīpa 50 Jalālābād, see Nagara, city 128 Jalālpur, city 74 Jālandhar, Jālandhara, territory 157 Jālandhara, same as Trigarta, country 83, 100, 104, 106 ; see She-lan-ta-lo 151 Jallāra, country 100 Jaloda, sea in the east, probably the water-ocean around the Puṣkara-dvīpa 62 Jambu, island-continent 33n, 34n, 39n, 47-48 ; also spelt Jambū 33n Jambu, mountain 92 Jambu-dvīpa, indicating both India (the Indian subcontinent with parts of Central Asia) and the earth 20, 33, 39-40, 45, 47, 49, 51, 69, 162 ; its circular shape 52 ; its divisions 57 ; surrounded by the Lavaṇoda 57 ; same as Kumārī 105n Jambukhaṇḍavinirmāṇa-parvan of the Mahābhārata 35 Jambu-tree in the Jambu-dvīpa 41 Jambuṣaṇḍa, Jambukhaṇḍa 41 Jammu, locality 157 Janakpur in the Nepalese Tarāi 78