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Geographical Imagination and Literary Boundaries in the Sarasvatī Purāṇa

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Rohlman, E. Geographical Imagination and Literary Boundaries in the Sarasvatī Purāṇa . Hindu Studies 15, 139–163 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11407-011-9105-8

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