Vindhya Mountain Range is a very old mountain range in central India. It is one of seven chief holy mountain ranges in India. These hills are comparatively less rugged and smaller in size. They actually form a divide between the Indo-Gangetic plains and the Deccan region of the country.
The Vindhya ranges of Indian mountains restrict the path of the winds making the area quite inhospitable and rough. The different slopes of the Vindhya Range are drained by the tributaries of Ganges towards the north and Narmada in the south. Theses ranges have huge sandstone reserve which was used to build Buddhist stupas at Sanchi and other temples at Khajuraho.
The Vindhya Range (also known as Vindhyachal) (pronounced [ʋɪnd̪ʱjə]) 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 part of Vindhya range is the highest in Amarkantak. Here the height of this mountain is 3438 feet above sea level, through Gujarat from Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh to Jharkhand and Bihar there is Vindhya mountain range.Vindhya’s shade spreads different colors in Amarkantak. Whereas in Rewa and Sidhi district also the beauty of Vindhyachal mountain is visible.
The origin of the word Vindhya is from the root ‘Vid’, the Vindhya range that came out of the underworld while ripping the earth is located in the middle of India, which divides the geographical structure of India into northern and southern parts. In this mountain, one of the 51 Shakti Peethas is considered to be the abode of Maa Vindhyavasini Devi and there is also a temple of Maa in Mirzapur. Mother Vindhyavasini had considered Vindhyachal as her home. The Vindhya Mountain has also been told in the scriptures like Ramayana, Mahabharata.
