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m The Himalayas.
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The Himála or Himálaya range of mountains bounding India on the north, and separating it from Tartary, the Imaus or Emodus of the ancients. It gives rise to the Ganges, the Indus, the Brahmáputra, and many other considerable rivers.
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हिमालय m. am. ‘abode of snow’, the हिमालय range of mountains (bounding India on the north and containing the highest elevations in the world; in mythology personified as husband of मेना or मेनका [by whom he had a son मैनाक] and father of पार्वती, ‘daughter of the Mountain’, and of गङ्गा, who, as the personified Ganges, is generally regarded as his eldest daughter), [Bhag.] ; [Kāv.] &c.
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the white खदिर tree, [L.]
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