Studies in the Geography of Ancient and Medieval India c7.s1.107

c7.s1.107

2. Mk *abc*, Vy, Bmd—शुक्तिमत्प्रभवाः स्मृताः ; Mk *b*—शुचि-मत्प्रभवाः स्मृताः ; Mts—शुक्तिमन्तात्मजास्तुताः. The name of the Śuktimat is preserved in that of the Śakti hills in Raigarh, Madhya Pradesh, and possibly in that of the Suktel river which joins the Mahānadī near Sonepur in Orissa. The name Śuktimat was probably applied to the chain of hills that extends from Sakti in Riagarh, M. P., to the Dalma hills in Mānbhūm drained by the Kumārī and perhaps even to the hills in the Santal Parganas washed by the affluents of the Bāblā (Raychaudhuri, *op. cit.*, p. 120).