Following text is
reproduced from the Imperial Gazetteer of India 1908:
"Sola Singhi (or Chintpurni)
- Mountain range in Hoshiarpur District, forming the Eastern boundary
of the Jaswan Dun. It commences at a point close to Talwara, on the
Beas river, and runs in a south-eastward direction between the
Districts of Hoshiarpur and Kangra. The range as it passes southwards
increases steadily both in width and elevation, until it reaches its
highest point at the small hill station of Bharwain, 18 miles from
Hoshiarpur town on the Dharmshala road and 3,896 feet above the sea.
At this point the ridge is 14 miles across. Thence it continues till
it crosses the valley of the Sutlej, its northern slope sinking
gradually into the Beas basin, while the southern escarpment consists
in places of an abrupt cliff about 300 feet in height. The space
between its central line and the level portion of the Jaswan Dun is
occupied by a broad table-land, thickly clothed with forest, and
intersected by precipitous ravines, which divide the surface into
natural blocks. Another range of hills in Hoshiarpur District, which
continues the line of the Sola Singhi and finally crosses into
Bilaspur, terminates in the hill of Naina Devi, with its famous
temple."
The temple devoted to Mata Chintpurni Devi is located on one of the highest peaks in the Sola Singhi range, about 3 km west of Bharwain, Una District, Himachal Pradesh.
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