A Classical Dictionary of Hindu Mythology and Religion, Geography, History, and Literature c5.925

c5.925

KULA-PARVATAS. ‘Family mountains.’ A series or system of seven chains of mountains in Southern India. They are Mahendra, Malaya, Sahya, Suktimat, Riksha (for which Gandha-mādana is sometimes substituted), Vindhya and Pāripātra. Mahendra is the Orissa chain; Malaya, the hills of Malabar proper, the south part of the Western Ghāts; Sahya, the northern parts of the Western Ghāts; Suktimat is doubtful; Riksha, the mountains of Gondwāna; Vindhya is here applied to the eastern division of the Vindhya mountains; and Pāripātra, or Pāriyātra as it is frequently written, applies to the northern and western portions of the same range. The classification seems to have been known to Ptolemy, for he specifies seven ranges of mountains, but his names are not in accord.