SAHYADRI  , a

mountain range of India . The term, which is Sanskrit rather than vernacular, is applied to the entire system of the Western GHATS (q.v.) from the Tapti river to Cape Comorin, but more especially to that part of the system in the Bombay Presidency . In this restricted sense the Sahyadri hills begin in Khandesh district, and run S. as far as Gao . In the territory of the Nizam of Hyderabad, the cross range forming the watershed between the river systems of the Tapti and the Godavari, is locally known as Sahyadri Parbat .