A History of the Mahrattas v1.c7.14

v1.c7.14

³ The Sautpoora is properly, I am informed by Major Tod, the range adjoining the Vendhia mountains to the south, but the Mahrattas term the whole Sautpoora. [The name Sātpurā (Sautpoora), originally applied only to the hills dividing the valleys of the Narbadā and Tapti in Nimār (Central Provinces), now signifies the whole range which, commencing at Amarkantak in Rewah, Central India (22° 41′ N. and 81° 48′ E.), runs south of the Narbadā river nearly down to the western coast. The length of the Sātpurās from east to west is about 600 miles. These hills are said to have been styled *sāt putra*, or ‘seven sons’ of the Vindhya mountains, while an alternative derivation is from *sātpura*, ‘sevenfolds,’ in allusion to the numerous parallel ridges of the range. (I.G. Bom., 1909, i. 155.)]