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GEOGRAPHY
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The Hemakūta region is also known as Kimpuruşavarşa, the land of the Kimpuruşas, and the Haimavata region as Kinnarakhanda, the land of the Kinnaras.1 Uttarakuru or northern continent, which is the romantic kingdom of Kuvera, is placed alike in the Pali texts and the Mahābhārata on the north side of Mount Sumeru.
According to Pali tradition, however, the Himalayan region extended to the north up to the Gandhamādana range. The Pali descriptions of the ranges and their setting are rather olumsy and far from systematic; these are more. over silent as to the existence of Harivarşa and the rest. But as in the Purāņas, so in the Jätakas the Kinnaras, Kimpuruşas and Vidyadharas are associated with the Himalayan mountains. Besides Nisabha (Nişadha), the Apadāna names a few other mountains in the neighbourhood of the Himavanta: Kadamba (p. 382), Kukkura (p. 155, better Kukkața, p. 178), Kosika (p. 381), Gotama (p. 162), Paduma (p. 362), Bhārika (p. 440), Bhūtagana (p. 179), Lambaka (p. 15), Vasabha (Vrşabha, p. 166), Vikata (p. 227), Samanga (p. 437) and Sobhita (p. 328). Of the lakes mentioned, the most important was, of course, the Anotatta or Mānas-sarovar, associated with the Kelāsa
1 Law, Geographical Besays, p. 118.
