India As Described In Early Texts Of Buddhism and Jainism

Author(s): Bimla Charn Law
Publisher: Bimlacharan Law

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12 INDIA AS DESCRIBED IN EARLY TEXTS
A similar account of the origin and course of Gangā and Sindhu is presented in the Jumb udivapannatti. But what is really important in it is the suggestion that thousands of other rivers fall into the Ganges through which they enter the eastern sea,t not directly. The same as to the Indus.
The identification of the Pali Anotatta lake with the Bindusara in the Mahābhārata and the Mānas-sarovara of popular fanc may be justified by the fact that, like the latter, the former is associated with Kelāsa or Kailāsa. In Pali commentaries it is said to bo onclosed by fivo Himalayan peaks, known as Sudassanakūta, Citrakūta, Kālakūta, Gandhamādlana and Kelasa.
In the Jambudīva-paņņatti we have mention of eight peaks (kūtas) of the Greater Himalayan range, of eleven of the Lesser range, and of nine of the Vaitādhya range which divides India into two halves: Āryāvarta and Dākşinātya. The eight Mahāhimavanta kūtas are Siddhāyatana, Mahāhimavadadhisthāts, Haimavatapati, Rohitanadisuri, Arisuri, Harikāņtānadīsuri, Harivarşapati and Vaidūrya. The eleven
in Jambudāva-pannatti, iv, 34: puratthābhimuhi avattásamāņi coddasahim salilasahassehi samaggå ahe jagaing dalaittà puratthim. enam lavenasamuddarp samappei.
? Papañcasüdant, ii, p. 585; Manorathapurani, ii, p. 759. • Jambudīva-franziatti, iv, 80.