The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c13.s3.t1.6

c13.s3.t1.6

An interesting feature of this treatise is the geographical section in chapter III (64-148). The earth is divided into seven *dvīpas*, "islands," regions or continents and has an area of fifty crores of *yojanas*. The continents are named as Karma, Bhoga, Atibhoga, Divya, Śringāra, Siddha and Kaivalya. At 105 there is a reference to the Yādava Kānchī *Viṣaya* (country). This leads Thomas to suspect the twelfth century as the age of this treatise or rather perhaps of this line (p. 17). But the context, again, is suspected by him as an interpolation. In any case the name Yādava as that of a tribe or family need not necessarily bring even this particular line down to the twelfth century.