Historical Geography of Ancient India c9.277

c9.277

Vindhyapādaparvata.—The Mahābhārata refers to it as Vindhyaparvata (Ch. 104, 1-15). The Padma Purāṇa (Uttarakhaṇḍa, vv. 35-38) mentions it. The Vindhya forest attached to the mountain is described in the Daśakumāracaritam (p. 18) as a wild wood full of terror, fit habitation for beasts and remote from the haunts of men. It is known as Quindon to Ptolemy. It forms the boundary between Northern and Southern India. The Ṛkṣa, the Vindhya and the Pāripātra are parts of the whole range of mountains now known as the Vindhya (Law, Geographical Essays, 107ff.). This mountain had a beautiful grotto (kandara) watered by the river Revā (Mārkaṇḍeya Purāṇa, Vaṅgavāsī Edition, p. 19). It occurs in Luders' List, No. 1123.