Markandeya Purana — Adhyaya 58, Shloka 34
Adhyaya 58 — The Kurma-Form of Narayana: Mapping Bharata through Nakshatras, Regions, and Planetary Afflictions
मणिमेघः क्षुराद्रिश्च खञ्जनोऽस्तगिरिस्तथा ।
अपरान्तिका हैहयाश्च शान्तिका विप्रशस्तकाः ॥
maṇimeghaḥ kṣurādriś ca khañjano 'stagiris tathā / aparāntikā haihayāś ca śāntikā vipraśastakāḥ
有摩尼弥伽（Maṇimegha）、刹罗阿德里（Kṣurādri）、坎贾那（Khañjana）与阿斯塔吉里（Astagiri）；又有阿波罗安提迦（Aparāntika）、海诃耶（Haihaya）、商提迦（Śāntika）与毗婆罗沙斯塔迦（Vipraśastaka）——皆为该方之民与地域。
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FAQs
Purāṇic catalogues preserve cultural memory: tribes, lineages, and landscapes are treated as components of dharmic history rather than mere cartography.
Sthāna (description of the earth/regions) with touches of Vaṃśa (when famous lineages like Haihaya are named).
Names that sound like mountains, directions, or natural images hint at a symbolic geography where human groups are ‘qualities’ distributed across the cosmic body.