[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Historical geography](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.geography) › Cosmography and Geography in Early Indian Literature # Cosmography and Geography in Early Indian Literature The dvīpa and varṣa systems, Bhāratavarṣa's divisions, the kūrma-vibhāga, and the regional lists of the Purāṇas, epics and astronomical texts. - **Language:** English - **Author:** [D. C. Sircar](https://indike.org/pramana/person/sircar-dc) - **Extent:** 1,630 passages, 75,343 words - **Text:** complete digital text - **Source:** archive.org · Calcutta: Indian Studies Past & Present 1967; scan on archive.org, OCR Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite; chapters and… · In copyright (D. C. Sircar †1984); freely available on archive.org — shown with credit and a link to that… ## Contents - [c1 Cosmography and Geography in Early Indian Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.geography.sircar-1967.c1) — 13 parts - [c2 Contents](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.geography.sircar-1967.c2) — 4 parts - [c3 Plates](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.geography.sircar-1967.c3) — 1 part - [c4 Preface](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.geography.sircar-1967.c4) — 11 parts - [c5 Evidence of the Vedic Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.geography.sircar-1967.c5) — 5 parts - [c6 India and the World in Epico-Puranic, Buddhist and Jain Traditions](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.geography.sircar-1967.c6) — 5 parts - [c7 Lecture III: Indian Sub-continent and its Neighbourhood](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.geography.sircar-1967.c7) — 6 parts - [c8 Appendices](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.geography.sircar-1967.c8) — 5 parts - [c9 Index](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.geography.sircar-1967.c9) — 454 parts - [c10 Addenda et Corrigenda](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.geography.sircar-1967.c10) — 90 parts --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.geography.sircar-1967](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.geography.sircar-1967) · Pramāṇa