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the Aparāntas, suktimat of the people of Bhallata,' Rksa of the people of Mahismati, Vindhya of the Āțavyas and other forest folks of central India and Pāripātra or Pāriyātra of the Nişādas.
Suktimat range, according to Beglar, lies to the north of the Hazaribagh district. There is a difference of opinion as to its location. Cunningham identifies it with the hills south of Sehoa and Kanker separating Chattisgarh from Bastar. Some have located it in western India and identified it with Kāt hiāwāda range. Others have identified it with the Sulaiman range. Raichaudhuri applies the name with the chain of hills, extending from Sakti to Raigarh in C. P. (modern M. P.) to the Dalma hills in Manbhum drained by the Kumārī river and perhaps even to the hills in the Santhal Paraganas washed by the affluents of the Bāblā."
The Pāripātra or Pāriyātra, the Rksavat, and the Vindhya are the mountains of central India. Rkṣa or Rkşavant is the central region of the modern Vindhya range north of the Narmadā Rksavat according to Dr. D. K. Gupta is the modern Satpura range to the north of Sahyādri and south of Narmadā extending in the east up to the Son valley. Vindhya, according to him, is the famous range of that name to the north of Narmadā spreading as far as Mirzapur district in the east, where its old name is still preserved in the name of a place called Vindhyāvala. Pāriyātra is a part of the great Vindhya range running west ward from the source of Betwa river and extending as far as the Arrāvali range in the North.
Dhanapāla's reference"कुलिशताडितकुलाचलशिखरसमकालनिपतद्गण्डशैलनिवहनादो रो हासध्वनिरुदलसत्।'
refers to the tumultuous noise caused by the group of Gandaśailas falling instantaneously from the peaks of the Kulācalas struck with the bolt
1 Mbh. II 30. 5. f. Harivamsa. 38. 19, Rai Chaudhuri Studies in Indian antiquities 105-6.
KGAI. p. 26. 2. Mbh. II 30. 5. f. Harivassa. 38. 19, Rai Chaudhuri Studies in Indian antiquities 105-6.
KGAI. p. 26. 3. Mbh. II 30. 5. f. Harivaṁsa. 38. 19, Rai Chaudhuri Studies in Indian antiquities 105-6.
KGAI. p. 26. 4. C. V. Vaidya Epic India. p. 276. 5. HGAI pp. 23-24 Introduction. 6. Ibid. p. 22. 7. KSN p. 111. 8. TM. Vol. p. 126.
