The Early History of the Deccan (Parts I–XI) v1.c6.s3.t4.2

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The word Godāvarī literally means ‘granting water or kine’. Crooke thinks that the name is probably a sanskritized form of the original Dravidian term ‘goda’ (Telugu gode), ‘limit’, ‘boundary’, in the sense that it divided two regions of Dakṣiṇāpatha,⁵ apparently the region of trap in the north and the granitic and calcareous country in the south.