The Vindhyas, is a range of hills in central India, which extends from the east-northeast for about 965 km (600 mi) and rises to approximately 915 m (3,000 ft). which geographically separates the Indian subcontinent into northern India (the Indo-Gangetic plain) and Southern India. The northern slopes of the range are drained by tributaries of the Ganges, including the Kali Sindh, Parbati, Betwa, and Ken. The Son, a tributary of the Ganges, drains the southern slopes of the range at its eastern end. The southern slopes of the range are drained by the Narmada River, which drains further westward to the Arabian Sea in the depression between the Vindhya Range and the parallel Satpura Range to the south.
 The western end of the range rises in eastern Gujarat state, near the border with Madhya Pradesh and the range runs east and north nearly to the Ganges River at Mirzapur. The massive sandstone of the range, long an important building material, was used for the famous group of Buddhist stupas at Sanchi, the 11th-century Jain and Brahman temples at Khajuraho, and the 15th-century palaces of Gwalior.
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