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Essay name: Brahma Purana (critical study)

Author: Surabhi H. Trivedi
Affiliation: Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda / Department of Sanskrit Pali and Prakrit

This is an English study of the Brahmapurana—one of the eighteen major Puranas which occupies an important place in the Pauranic literature. This study researches the rich an encyclopaedic material for social, religious, philosophical, mythological, political, geographical and literary study found in the Brahma-Purana.

Appendix 8 - Geographical and Ethnic Data

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52 (of 105)


External source: Shodhganga (Repository of Indian theses)


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(476) Mahapura City - (170.70).
(477) Maharastra - D A southern country (27.55).
(478) Mahasrama H
CPP
(25.58).
(479) Mahastota - T - (25.17).
(480) Mahatirtha I (25.67).
(481) Mahavala T
(25.12).
A kulaparvata of Bharata
(19.3).
(482) Mahendra M.
The rivers Trisandhya and Rsikulya emerge out of
it (19.15), (25.47), (27.19). From this mountain emerge
the rivers Pitrkulya, Somakulya, Rsikulya, Vandula, Tridiva,
Langulini, and Vamsakara, (27.37,38), (54.10), * (64.9),
Lord Parasurama practised penance on this mountain (213.122).
(483) Mahesvara I Lord Siva should be worshipp-
ed here (168.17,31).
(484) Mahi R
no
It emerges from the mountain
Pariyatra (27.28).
(20.24).
(485) Mahisa - M - It is a mountain in Plaksadvipa
(486) Mahisaka D - A southern country (27.55).

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