Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c9.252

c9.252

RAMYAKA II. A particular region in Ilāvṛta, one of the seven Continents. On the eastern part of Ilāvṛta there exist three mountains called Nilagiri, Śvetagiri and Śṛṅgavān. These mountains jut into the sea, and are separated from one another by a distance of two thousand miles and are the source of many rivers. In between the three mountains are three regions of land called Ramyaka, Hiraṇmaya and Kuru. (Devī Bhāgavata, 8th Skandha).