Historical Geography of Ancient India c7.511

c7.511

*Rṣyamukha*.—This mountain is situated eight miles from Anagandi on the bank of the river Tuṅgabhadrā. The river Pampā rises in this mountain and falls into the Tuṅgabhadrā after flowing westward. It was at this mountain that Hanumāna and Sugriva were met for the first time by Rāmacandra (*Rāmāyaṇa*, Ch. IV, Kiṣkindhyākāṇḍa). The *Mārkaṇḍeya Purāṇa* (translated by Pargiter, Canto LVII, 13) refers to Rṣyamukha which has been identified by Pargiter with the range of hills stretching from Ahmadnagar to beyond Naldrug and Kalyāṇi dividing the Mañjira and the Bhīma rivers (*J.R.A.S.*, April, 1894, p. 253). The *Bṛhat-Saṃhitā* mentions it as a mountain in the south (XIV, 13).