Historical Geography of Ancient India c8.483

c8.483

Śuktimat range.—It is identified by Cunningham with the hills south of Sehoa and Kanker separating Chattisgarh from Baster (A.S.R., XVII, pp. 24, 26). Beglar places this range in the north of the Hazaribagh district (Ibid., VIII, pp. 124-5). Pargiter identifies it with Garo, Khasi and Tippera hills (Mārkaṇḍeya Purāṇa, 285, 306, notes). C. V. Vaidya locates it in Western India and identifies it with Kāthiawāḍ range (Epic India, p. 276). Others have identified the Śuktimat with the Sulaiman range (Z.D.M.G., 1922, p. 281, note). Some have applied the name to the chain of hills extending from Śakti in Raigarh, C.P., to the Dalma hills in Manbhum drained by the Kumārī river and perhaps even to the hills in the Santal Parganas washed by the affluents of the Bāblā (H. C. Raychaudhuri, Studies in Indian Antiquities, pp. 113-120).