History of Aurangzib, Based on Original Sources v4.c59.s1.2

v4.c59.s1.2

After crossing the Ghats eastwards we have a belt of land, some 20 miles in breadth, called Dang or Maval in the north and Mallad in the south (i.e., Kanara.) "It is extremely rugged, a series of table-lands cut on every side by deep winding valleys. From the valleys, hills of various heights and forms arise, terrace above terrace, with steep sides often strewn with black basalt boulders......Here and there are patches of ancient evergreen forests." (Bomb. Gaz., xviii. pt. 1, pp. 2, 13.)