sentences:  According to the "Matsya Purana", during the Great flood, the giant boat of King Manu was perched after the deluge on the top of the Malaya Mountains.These mountains are believed to have formed the southernmost part (southwards starting from the Mangalore region) of the Western Ghats, modern day Kerala while the Northern part of the same was called the Sahya Mountains.The peaks of these Malaya mountains were said to be higher than those of the Sahya Mountariod of recorded history, it might have been the junction of the Chera and Pandya Kingdoms.