Historical Geography of Ancient India c8.434

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c8.434

Rājmahal ranges.—These ranges belong to the Santal Parganas in Bihar, inhabited by the Antargiryas, mentioned in the Bhīṣmaparva list of the Mahābhārata. The Antargiryas were the people dwelling on the outskirts of the hills of the Bhagalpur and Monghyr regions. It is also known as Kālakavana according to Patañjali (*Mahābhāṣya*, II, 4, 10; cf. Baudhāyana, I, 1, 2).

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Baudhāyanadharmasūtra — Baudhāyana, Sanskrit
Mahābhārata — Vyāsa, Sanskrit