(Vedic civilization) 'Aryavarta' is highlighted]]Aryavarta (Sanskrit: ?????????, "abode of the Aryans") is the ancient name for northern and central India, where the culture of the Indo-Aryans was based. It is erroneous to give this name to the whole of India, since the borders of Aryavarta have been described differently in sources from different times.The Manu Smriti (2.22) gives the name to "the tract between the Himalaya and the Vindhya ranges, from the eastern to the western sea".The Vasistha Dharma Sutra I.8-9 and 12-13 locates Aryavarta to the east of the disappearance of the Sarasvati in the desert, to the west of Kalakavana, to the north of the mountains of Pariyatra and Vindhya and to the south of the Himalaya. Baudhayana Dharmasutra (BDS) 1.1.2.10 gives similar definitions and declares that Aryavarta is the land that lies west of Kalakavanaregion of modern Allahabad, east of Adarsanawhere the Sarasvati disappears, south of the Himalayas and north of the Vindhyas. In BDS 1.1