Twilight of the Sultanate c7.s4.14

c7.s4.14

¹⁴⁹ Z.N., II, 155, has Kūkā کوکاو. Kūkā may be Karkā or Garga گرگا. It is the Gāgar range of our Gazetteers which is also called Garāchal or Gargāchal. It runs along the districts of Almora and Kumaon and presents a line of higher elevation than any ranges between it and the main ridge of the central Himalays (I.G., XII, 121). The *darra* or valley between the Siwalik (the sub-Himalays) and the Kūkā or Gārga hills (the outer Himalays), was probably Dehra Dun or the Kyarda Dun in the south-east portion of the Sirmur State I.G., XXIII, 21.