This book endeavours to demonstrate that the narratives by scholarly sages embodied in these ancient Sanskrit works do not represent figments of poetic imagination, but provide-if shorn of metaphors, idiomatic pharases and allegories-the kernels of truths-the revealing facts-and invaluable information on the geography and geomorphological layout.

ISBN 13: 9788173054228

ISBN 10: 8173054223

Year: 2012

Pages etc.: xxii,242p., (65)col. illus., (48)b&w illus., bibl., ind., 25cm.

Binding: Hardbound

Subject(s): Epics, Geology