Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jataka Stories c8.88

c8.88

| No. | Name | Description | Reference | Identification |
| 209 | Himavanta | A mountain-range. | See Anderson, *Index*, pp. 183-4. | It is the famous range of mountains to the North of India so frequently mentioned in *Rgveda*, X, 121, 4; but varying in extent at different times. "The oldest designation of the range is Himavat—the Imaos of classical Greek writers. The current name Himālaya is first met with in the *Bhagavad-Gītā* and the works of Kālidāsa (*himālaya nāma Nagādhirājaḥ*), though some scholars equate it with Simalia—queen of the snow mountains—known to the ancient Babylonians." Raychaudhury, *Studies in Indian Antiquities* p. 101. Cf. McCrindle, *Megasthenes and Arrian*, p. 182 n.; *Ancient India*, p. 16 n. It is the Hemodos or |