Vindhya Range

1. a mountain range in Madhya Pradesh state, central India, extending about 675 miles (1,086 km) and dividing the country into N and S India.

Vindhya Range

noun

1. a mountain range in central India: separates the Ganges basin from the Deccan, marking the limits of northern and peninsular India. Greatest height: 1113 m (3651 ft)

Example Sentences

Practically, in fact, all India north of the Vindhya range acknowledged the supremacy of the son of Hum�y�n.

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The hills of Mandla, the home of perhaps the most primitive Baigas, are quite close to the Vindhya range.

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Hatti Singh, Grassia chief of Nowlāna, a Khīchi Rājpūt, and several others in the vicinity cultivated the friendship of Nādir, the late formidable Bhilāla robber-chief of the Vindhya range; and among other sacrifices made by the Rājpūts, was eating and drinking with him.

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Still unsatisfied, he next retired to the jungle of Uruvela, on the most northerly spur of the Vindhya range of mountains, and there for six years, attended by five faithful disciples, he gave himself up to the severest penance and self-torture, till his fame as an ascetic spread in all the country round about "like the sound," says the Burmese chronicle, "of a great bell hung in the canopy of the skies."

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As he dwells on a peak in the Vindhya range, half India separates him from his young bride.

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