Historical Geography of Ancient India c7.673

c7.673

Veṅkaṭagiri.—It is the Tirumalai mountain near Tirupati in the North Arcot district, about 72 miles to the north-west of Madras, where Rāmānuja, the celebrated Vaiṣṇava reformer, performed the worship of Viṣṇu in the 12th century A.D. (Law, *Mountains of India*, p. 21). It is known as the Veṅkaṭācala according to the *Skandapurāṇa*, (Ch. I, śl. 36–48), which is seven yojanas in extent and one yojana in height.