Historical Geography of Ancient India c7.514

c7.514

*Sahyādri*.—This is a mountain lying on the Western Ghats (*S.I.I.*, I, pp. 168-69). The Western Ghats were known to the ancients as the Sahyādri, which form the western boundary of the Deccan and run continuously for a distance of about 1,000 miles from the Kundaibari Pass in the Khandesh district of the Bombay State down to Cape Comorin, the southernmost point of India. The Western Ghats are known by different local names. There are important passes too. (For details, vide B. C. Law, *Mountains of India*, Calcutta Geographical Society Publication, No. 5, pp. 22-23).