Historical Geography of Ancient India c6.498

c6.498

*Mainākagiri*.—The Yoginītantra has a reference to this hill (2. 4, pp. 128-129). It is also mentioned in Bāṇa’s Kādambarī (p. 86). It is the Siwalik range extending from the Ganges to the Beas. The Siwalik hills proper extend for about 200 miles from the Beas to the Ganges, and are known to the ancient geographers as Mainākaparvata. In the Uttara Pradeśa the Siwaliks are known as the Churia and the Dundwa ranges and lie between the Ganges and the Jumna. Here the hills rise abruptly from the plains and slope rather gently northwards into the valley of Dehra Dun. (Law, *Mountains of India*, pp. 3, 4, 7).