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Vindhya Range
The Vindhya Range ( , also known as Vindhyachal) is a complex, discontinuous chain of mountain ridges, hill ranges, highlands and plateau escarpments in west-central India. Technically, the Vindhyas do not form a single mountain range in the geological sense. The exact extent of the Vindhyas is loosely defined, and historically, the term covered a number of distinct hill systems in central India, including the one that is now known as the Satpura Range. Today, the term principally refers to the escarpment and its hilly extensions that runs north of and roughly parallel to the Narmada River in Madhya Pradesh. Depending on the definition, the range extends up to Gujarat in the west, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar in the north, and Chhattisgarh in the east. The average elevation of the Vindhyas is also dependent on different sources. The Vindhyas hold great significance in Indian mythology and history. Several ancient texts mention the Vindhya Range as the southern boundary of Āryāvarta, the region associated with Vedic culture around 1500–1200 BCE. However, the meaning of this term evolved in later Vedic texts to refer to the entire Indian subcontinent. Since there is no clear evidence of settled societies in southern India during this period, it remains debated whether the Vindhyas represented a cultural boundary or simply the southern limit of the settled societies known at the time.…
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The Vindhya Range ( , also known as Vindhyachal) is a complex, discontinuous chain of mountain ridges, hill ranges, highlands and plateau escarpments in west-central India. Technically, the Vindhyas do not form a single mountain range in the geological sense. The exact extent of the Vindhyas is loosely defined, and historically, the term covered a number of distinct hill systems in central India, including the one that is now known as the Satpura Range. Today, the term principally refers to the escarpment and its hilly extensions that runs north of and roughly parallel to the Narmada River in Madhya Pradesh. Depending on the definition, the range extends up to Gujarat in the west, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar in the north, and Chhattisgarh in the east. The average elevation of the Vindhyas is also dependent on different sources. The Vindhyas hold great significance in Indian mythology and history. Several ancient texts mention the Vindhya Range as the southern boundary of Āryāvarta, the region associated with Vedic culture around 1500–1200 BCE. However, the meaning of this term evolved in later Vedic texts to refer to the entire Indian subcontinent. Since there is no clear evidence of settled societies in southern India during this period, it remains debated whether the Vindhyas represented a cultural boundary or simply the southern limit of the settled societies known at the time.…
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