These mountains on India's northern border have a name from the Sanskrit for "snow abode"
The 
wort is Sanskrit, and literally signifies "snow-abode," from hint snow, and (Hari, 
abode, ... To these ranges the designation of Himalaya has by degrees been 
specially ... along the northern border of British India, nowhere rise so much as 
1000 feet... [DOC] [TLE] Himalaya - Encyclopedia Britannica 1911 - Theodora [PAR] The word is Sanskrit and literally signifies " snow-abode," from him, snow, and 
dlaya, ...