The Classical Accounts of India c13.72

c13.72

50 From Barygaza the coast immediately adjoining stretches from the north directly to the south and the country is therefore called Dakhnabades, because *Dakhan* in the language of the natives signifies south. Of this country that part which lies inland towards the east comprises a great space of desert country, and large mountains abounding with all kinds of wild animals, leopards, tigers, elephants, huge snakes, hyenas, and baboons of many different sorts, and is inhabited right across to the Ganges by many and extremely populous nations.