Historical Geography of Ancient India c6.456

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Kṛṣṇagiri.—It is the Karakorum or the Black mountain.⁸ This mountain is continuous with the Hindukush on the west. According to modern geographers it was uplifted earlier and is hence older than the Himalaya proper. It is of Hercynian age, and got considerably folded and faulted subsequent to its uplift.

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