Historical Geography of Ancient India c8.268

c8.268

Khalatika hills.—These are the modern Barabar hills in the district of Gaya. The Barabar hill cave Inscriptions of Aśoka inform us that four cave-dwellings were dedicated to the Ājīvikas by Aśoka in the Khalatika hills (cf. Patañjali’s Mahābhāṣya, 1, 2, 2; B. C. Law, India as described in the early texts of Buddhism and Jainism, p. 27). The Khalatika (Bald-headed) hills became known in the later inscriptions by the name of Gorathagiri (Goradhagiri), and still later by the name of Pravaragiri (see B. C. Law, Rājagriha in Ancient Literature, M.A.S.I., No. 58).