Historical Geography of Ancient India c10.2

c10.2

*Acāvaḍa* (Accāvaṭa).—It is the Ṛkṣavat mountain where lived the banker Nāgapiya, a native of Kurara. It occurs in Luders' List (Nos. 339, 348, 581 and 1123). The Ṛkṣavat is the Ouxenton of Ptolemy. It is a part of the whole range of mountains now known by the common name Vindhya. Ptolemy describes the Ṛkṣavat as the source of the Toundis, the Dosaron, the Adamas, the Ouindon, the Namados and the Nanagouna. By the Ṛkṣvat or the Ṛkṣavant Ptolemy meant the central region of the modern Vindhya range, north of the Narmadā (Law, *Mountains of India*, p. 17; Law, *Geographical Essays*, pp. 107ff.).