Early History of the Dekkan down to the Mahomedan Conquest c10.30

c10.30

selves Mahâraṭṭhis or Mahâraṭṭhas, as will be shown below, and thus the country in which they lived came to be called Mahâraṭṭha, the Sanskrit of which is Mahârâshṭra In the second and the thirteenth edicts, the countries of the Cholas, Pâṇḍyas, Ketala-putras (Chera or Kerala), and the Andhras and Pulindas are mentioned Thus about a hundred years before Patañjali, the whole of the southern peninsula up to Cape Comorin was in direct communication with the north, and the Dekkan or Mahârâshṭra had regular kingdoms governed by Raṭṭas and Bhojas