The Geography of the Puranas c11.s6.t2.9

c11.s6.t2.9

Tumura, Kiṣkindhaka, Patavi. Beyond the Tuṇḍikera janapada towards the west, the river Narmadā below its confluence with the Tawa flows in a wider valley, which opens out towards the west. Here the Vindhyan scarp to the north of the valley and the Satpura hills in the south form a sort of a triangular basin with its apex near Hoshangabad where the two come nearest and its base towards the west along the meridian of Khandwa. Beyond this line the two hill systems approach each other between Barvani and Surpan. Thereafter the Narmadā comes out of the mountainous terrain and flows through the western coastal plain into the sea.