Note 288 — PART II THE DIVINE COMEDY COMPARED WITH OTHER MOSLEM LEGENDS ON THE AFTER-LIFE
Harold Sunderland translation
The Moslem belief was in its turn based upon a Buddhist myth. Cf. Reclus, Géogr. Univ. VIII, 581; and especially Graf, Miti, I, 59-61. Gubernatis, in his work Dante e l’India, which I have not been able to obtain, identifies Dante’s Mount of Purgatory with the island of Ceylon.