The Antiquities of Orissa v2.c18.113

v2.c18.113

Close by the Āssiā range, and separated from it by the Birūpā river, is an isolated hill with two unequal peaks, called Nâlti. It was here that Solomon first alighted from mid-air, but his throne was too heavy and his retinue too large for the hill ; and so it began to sink, and the prophet, in a fit of vaxation, pronounced a curse (*l'anat*) on it, whence its name. This was the derivation given to Babu Chandrasekhara Banurji; but Mr. Beames questions its correctness. He is of opinion that the name is a diminutive of Ālti: Anu Ālti or little Ālti in contradistinction to the Āssiā which is the Ālti,—in the same way in which the two pargannahs of Avartak and Anāvartak are distinguished⁴¹. This appears to be the most probable derivation.