The Antiquities of Orissa v2.c16.12

v2.c16.12

—The native legend about the origin of these hills is, that "they formerly constituted a part of the Himālaya, at which time they were inhabited by numerous *ṛṣis*, who dug the caves now found in them. They were taken up bodily, ascetics and all, by Mahābir Hanumān, with other masses of rock, to build the bridge of Rāma, but by some accident, were allowed to drop in their passage through the air, when they alighted in their present position."³