Kūrma Vibhāga

Brihat Samhita -

Chapter 14 - On Kūrma Vibhāga

Note on kūrma-vibhāga: The geographical divisions of the Earth and of India particularly, corresponding to the various stellar divisions along the ecliptic. The object is to discover which of the countries of the earth will suffer when planetary and the like celestial phenomena occur. The chapter, therefore, is a useful one, though it may not be found to be a interesting study to the general reader. It may be used as geographical dictionary of reference when necessary. A few more geographical terms occur in chapters 16 and 17. For convenience of reference, it is proposed to give an alphabetical list of the more important terms occuring in the three chapters at the end of Chapter 17 with the modern names given opposite to each.