Shloka 41
Adhyaya 57 — The Ninefold Divisions of Bharata: Mountains, Rivers, and Peoples
तामसा हंसमार्गाश्च काश्मीरास्तुङ्गनास्तथा । शूलिकाः कुहकाश्चैव ऊर्णा दर्वास्तथैव च ॥
tāmasā haṃsamārgāśca kāśmīrāstuṅganāstathā / śūlikāḥ kuhakāścaiva ūrṇā darvāstathaiva ca
تامس اور ہنس مارگ؛ کاشمیر اور تُنگن؛ شُولِک اور کُہَک؛ نیز اُورْن اور دَرو—یہ سب بھی مذکور ہیں۔
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FAQs
The naming of Kashmir and other northern groups reflects the purāṇic awareness of diverse Himalayan and trans-Himalayan corridors and their integration into sacred geography.
Cosmography/earth-description used as scaffolding for purāṇic historiography (vaṃśa/vaṃśānucarita contexts).
Northern lands often function symbolically as liminal zones—thresholds to ‘other worlds’—yet still mapped into the ordered purāṇic universe.