Those that came to the High Range carried their children up the ghats on their backs, and it was thereupon decided to name the tribe Muduvar, or back people.
The truths underlying this legend are that the littoral strip between the westernghats and the sea is certainly of recent formation geologically.
Western Ghatssometimes obscure the sun for months at a time.
These divisions are determined by the great mountain ranges of the Eastern and Western Ghats (q.
The wild animals include the elephant, bison, sambur and ibex of the Western Ghats and the Nilgiris.
The principal coffee tract stretches along the slopes of the Western Ghats from the north of Mysore almost down to Cape Comorin.
The range of the Western Ghats enabled the Mahrattas to rise against their Mahommedan conquerors, to reassert their Hindu nationality against the whole power of the Mogul Empire, and to establish in its place an empire of their own.
The lama gazed placidly up-stream, where in long, smudged perspective the ceaseless columns of smoke go up from the burning-ghats by the river.
The glow of lamps shone forth from the temple courtyards, and down by the river ghats were the lurid crimson flame and smoke where they cremated dead Hindus.
I think the Ghats are the most nauseating place in the world; there, is Idolatry, in capital letters--the most terrible vision that a mind diseased could picture in horrible nightmare!
But to go back to the people and the Ghats I must--for my own protection--for some one who reads these notes may have also waded through the exquisite writing of Pierre Loti on the subject, and may conclude I am untruthful.
The range of the Western Ghats extends uninterruptedly, with the exception of a gap or valley 25 m.
The Eastern Ghats run in fragmentary spurs and ranges down the Madras coast.
South of the Palghat gap, the peaks of the Western Ghatsrise as high as 8000 ft.
Between the eastern Ghats and the sea lies the extensive maritime plain generally named the Karnatic, reaching back from the Coromandel coast for about fifty miles.
The eastern Ghats differ from the western in being much lower, in rising at a much greater distance from the coast of the Bay of Bengal, and with a gentle slope, giving access by wide openings to the interior.
Temples and ghats line the bank, and hither come vast numbers of pilgrims to the great annual fair of Hardwar to bathe in the holy river.
It is a wonderful sight to see the row of riverside palaces, temples, and ghats which here fringe the broad river.
Its temples are always crowded with worshippers; its broad stone ghats running down to the sacred Ganges are packed day after day with adoring and reverent throngs.
These are called ghats or steps, and sometimes interspersed at intervals is another figure called sankal or chain.
And again along the Ajanta hills to the south of the Berar valley a tribe of Kolis under their Naiks had charge of the ghats or gates of the ridge, and acted as a kind of local militia paid by assignments of land in the villages.
Great would be my wonder if the West African as well as the East African Ghats did not prove auriferous; both fulfil all the required conditions, and both await actual discovery.
The Nilgheri Hills, the Animallies, Pulneys, the Wynaad, and all the higher parts of the range of the Ghats as low as Travancore.
Mr. Baker in the Western Ghats of Malabar, and in Cochin and Travancore, at an elevation of about 3000 feet.
Jerdon had only obtained it from the Eastern Ghats inland from Nellore, where it inhabits forests among the hills.
Putting the helm down he ran out some eight or ten miles, until the coast was visible only from the masthead as a purple line on the horizon, with occasional glimpses of high ghats {mountains} behind.
The volcanic plateau of the Deccan stretches from the borders of the Western Ghats and the sea-coast near Bombay inland to Amarantak, at the head of the Narbudda River (long.
The Kurumba of this part lives in comparatively open country, in the belt of deciduous forest lying between the ghats proper and the foot of the Nilgiri plateau.
Their ancestors were Masi Reddi and Nilamma, who lived on the eastern ghats by selling firewood, and had six sons.
Lower down, on the flat below the ghats I am opening a rubber estate, and here I have another Nayaka colony, who differ in many respects from their congeners above, although the two colonies are within five miles as the crow flies.
This sponge has only been found in the Western Ghats of the Bombay Presidency.
Godaveri at Nasik on the eastern side of the Western Ghats in the Bombay Presidency.
Shasthancottah Lake in Travancore, in a swamp in Lower Burma, and in a small jungle stream near the base of the Western Ghats in Travancore.
Lying between the Western Ghats and the sea, Kolaba district abounds in hills, some being spurs running at right angles to the main range, while others are isolated peaks or lofty detached ridges.
The Western Ghats have two remarkable peaks--Raigarh, where Sivaji built his capital, and Miradongar.
Along the spurs of the main chain of the Ghats lie wild and picturesque hill slopes and valleys, producing little but timber, and till recently covered with rich forests.
Kolhapur stretches from the heart of the Western Ghats eastwards into the plain of the Deccan.
At short intervals temples stand; ghats or steps that lead downward to the sacred stream are crowded with devotees.
On this occasion[49] an estimated number of two hundred thousand persons were assembled on and in the immediate neighbourhood of the ghats to take part in what was called “the great celebration.
From one end of it to the other are burning ghats where the bodies of the dead are soaked in it before they are placed upon the funeral pyres, and when the bones and flesh are consumed the ashes are cast upon the sacred stream.
Hence all of the burning ghats along the river bank are busy from daylight until mid-day disposing of the bodies of those who have died during the previous eighteen or twenty hours.
Hence the burning ghats were very useful, for at least 80 percent of the dead were Brahmins and their bodies were disposed of in that way.
This is a vast plateau bounded on the north by the Vindhya mountains, on the east and west by the Ghats of those names, and on the south by the River Krishna.
This moisture-laden wind is partially robbed of its load as it strikes the Western Ghats and consequently much moisture is deposited here, giving rise to many valuable rivers which water the Deccan or Central Tableland of India.
All around here, as at Roump, is a dead flat, except towards the crest of the ghats which overhang the valley of the Soane, and there the sandstone rock rises by steps into low hills.
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