The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c7.26

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¹ Mr. Pargiter holds that a careful examination of the names of rivers and mountains in Canto 57 of the *Mārkaṇḍeya Purāṇa* indicates that in ancient times the name Vindhya was confined to the eastern part of the range to the north of the Narmadā, extending from about Bhopāl to Bihār, the more western part of the range along with the Aravallis (Aṛāvalā) being included under the term Pāripātra (*J. R. A. S.*, 1894, p. 258). Modern writers apply the term Vindhya to the whole range north of the river.