VINDHYA, a range of mountains in Central India. They form a well-marked, though not continuous, chain with the river Narbada nn the south and separate the Ganges basin from the Deccan. Starting on the west in Gujarat, they cross the southern edge of the Malwa plateau and, continued by the Bhanrer and Kaimur ranges, abut on the Ganges valley near Benares. They
have an elevation of 1,500 to 4,500 ft., nowhere exceeding 5,000 ft.
They are built of the "Vindhyan formation" (part of the Pre Cambrian rocks of India). Traditionally they formed the bound ary between the Madyadesha of the Sanskrit invaders and the non-Aryan Deccan.