Shloka 39

Adhyaya 57 — The Ninefold Divisions of Bharata: Mountains, Rivers, and Peoples

Sanskrit

चीनाश्चैव तुखाराश्च बहुला बाह्यतो नराः । आत्रेयाश्च भरद्वाजाः पुष्कलाश्च कशेरुकाः ॥

Transliteration

cīnāścaiva tukhārāśca bahulā bāhyatonarāḥ / ātreyāśca bharadvājāḥ puṣkalāśca kaśerukāḥ

Translation

また、チーナ族（Cīna）とトゥカーラ族（Tukhāra）、および（中土の）外に住まう多くの民がいる。さらにアートレーヤ族（Ātreya）とバーラドヴァージャ族（Bhāradvāja）、プシュカラ族（Puṣkala）とカシェールカ族（Kaśeruka）もいる。

Speakers

• Paurāṇic narrator (geographical enumeration; frame-speaker not explicit in the given excerpt)

Key Themes

• Geography
• Frontier/outer world
• Gotra/lineage names in regional catalogues