Historical Geography of Ancient India c7.310

c7.310

Kṛṣṇagiri.—It is the Karakorum or the Black mountain (Vāyup., Ch. 36). The Karakorum was known to the ancient geographers as the Kṛṣṇagiri. This mountain is continuous with the Hindukush on the west. According to modern geographers, it is older than the Himalayan proper. It is of Hercynian age (Law, Rivers of India, pp. 4 and 7; Rapson, Andhra Coins, XXXIII; Bombay Gazetteer, I. ii. 9; cf. Rāmāyaṇa, VI. 26-30).