About the Book: Geography, Peoples and Geodynamics of India In Puranas and Epics: A Geologist's Interpretations This book endeavors 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 phrases and allegories-the kernels of truths-the revealing facts-and invaluable information on the geography and geomorphologic layout.