Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jataka Stories c7.61
Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jātaka Stories c7.61
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HIMAVANTA REGION. Besides the above five divisions or regions, the Jātakas know the Himālaya region as a separate division altogether.³ This region is very frequently alluded to, and the Jātakas grow, oftentimes, eloquent over the description of that region showing, thereby, a great deal of observation.⁴ This Himavanta region is also known to the Purāṇas as Parvatāśraya or the “mountain region.”⁵