[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882) › c8.s3.18 # The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s3.18 The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s3.18 - **Language:** English ### [c8.s3.18](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s3.18) Dakshiṇâpatha or Dakshiṇa was the name of the whole peninsula to the south of the Narmadâ. Among the countries enumerated in the Mârkaṇḍeya,³ Vâyu,⁴ and Mâtsya⁵ Purâṇas as comprised in Dakshiṇâpatha are those of the Cholas, Pâṇḍyas, and Keralas, which were situated in the extreme south of the peninsula, and correspond to the modern provinces of Tanjor, Madura, and Malabâr. In the Mahâbhârata, however, Sahadeva, the youngest of the Pâṇḍu princes, is represented in his career of conquest to have gone to Dakshiṇâpatha after having conquered the king of the Pâṇḍyas.⁶ This would show that the country of the Pâṇḍyas was not included in Dakshiṇâpatha. Again, the rivers Godâvarî and others springing from the Sahyâdri are spoken of in the Vâyu Purâṇa as rivers of Dakshiṇâpatha,⁷ while the Narmadâ and the Tâpî are not so styled; whence it would seem that the valleys of those rivers were not included in Dakshiṇâpatha. The word thus appears not to have been always used in the same sense. In modern times it is the name of the country between the Narmadâ on the north and a variable line along the course of the Kṛishṇâ to the south, exclusive of the provinces lying to the extreme east. It is thus almost identical - [Previous: c8.s3.17](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s3.17) - [Next: c8.s3.19](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s3.19) - [Up: c8.s3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s3) ## Linked texts (5) - [Vāyupurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.vayu) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit - [Matsyapurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.matsya) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit - [Mārkaṇḍeyapurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.markandeya) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit - [Mahābhārata](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit - [Godavari](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.site.godavari) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s3.18](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s3.18) · Pramāṇa