Vamana Purana — Structure of Jambudvipa, Shloka 38
The Structure of Jambudvipa: Nine Varshas, Navadvipa Bharata, Mountains, Rivers, and Peoples
गान्धारा यवनाश्चैव सिन्धुसौवीरमद्रकाः शातद्रवा ललित्थाश्च पारावतसमूषकाः
gāndhārā yavanāścaiva sindhusauvīramadrakāḥ śātadravā lalitthāśca pārāvatasamūṣakāḥ
“有健陀罗族（Gāndhāra）以及夜婆那族（Yavana）；又有信度族（Sindhu）、苏毗罗族（Sauvīra）与摩陀罗迦族（Madraka）；还有沙多陀罗婆族（Śātadrava）、拉利提叉族（Lalittha）与帕罗伐多-萨穆沙迦族（Pārāvata-samūṣaka）。”
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FAQs
By naming borderland and ‘foreign’ groups (e.g., Yavanas), the text normalizes a plural human world, implying that religious geography and dharma discourse are not confined to a single ethnic or political identity.
It functions as cosmographical/ethnographical enumeration, typically treated as supporting material within broader world-description passages rather than the core five marks in a strict sense.
The inclusion of well-known frontier ethnonyms (Gāndhāra, Yavana, Sindhu) symbolizes the Purāṇic ambition to map sacred order across the ‘known world,’ integrating peripheries into a single imagined civilizational cosmos.