{"product_id":"historical-geography-of-ancient-india","title":"HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY OF ANCIENT INDIA","description":"About the book:-This book is a systematic and comprehensive historical geography of ancient India, based on epigraphic data. The present book is an outcome of the author’s continued study of ancient Indian geography. This book contains a lengthy introduction, in which he treats of the sources and the geography of India as known to ancient writers. This includes sections on mountains, caves, rivers, and lakes referred to in early sources, and discuss the 16 great Janapadas of the Buddhist scriptures. The main part of the volume is divided into five sections, roughly agreeing with the traditional divisions of Puranic geography—Northern, Southern, Eastern, Western and Central India. For the ease of the reader, the author has arranged the geographical names in alphabetical order and has fully dealt with them under the proper divisions to which they belong to. The work is the result of a deep analysis of the original works in Sanskrit (Vedic and Classical), Pali, Prakrit, Sinhalese, Burmese, Tibetan, and Chinese. He has received an invaluable help from other sources such as epigraphy, archaeology, numismatics, accounts of Greek travellers and Chinese pilgrims. Due attention has been paid to modern literature and modem researches on the subject. About the Author :-B. C. Law was born in 1892. He was a renowned Indologist and a reputed Bengali author on Buddhist text. He wrote many books such as -- A History of Pali Literature; Saravasti in Indian Literature; Geography of Early Buddhism; A Study of the Mahavastu; The Life and Work of Buddhaghosa; and The Buddhist Conception of Spirits. The Title 'HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY OF ANCIENT INDIA written\/authored\/edited by BIMALA CHURN LAW', published in the year 2021. The ISBN 9788121224673 is assigned to the Paperback version of this title. This book has total of pp. 370 (Pages). The publisher of this title is Gyan Publishing House. This Book is in ENGLISH. The subject of this book is . Size of the book is 13.34 x 21.59 cms Vol:-","brand":"Gyan Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43957527707885,"sku":null,"price":688.2,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43957527740653,"sku":null,"price":1376.4,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0355\/1415\/5141\/products\/1111007404088-_1_15a618c7-c0f3-4a75-a5f9-3cf272fe0cb6.jpg?v=1680033282","url":"https:\/\/rekhtabooks.com\/products\/historical-geography-of-ancient-india","provider":"Rekhta Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}