The Geography of the Puranas c11.s5.11

c11.s5.11

*Māhiṣaka, Kuntala and Kupatha (Kumāra)* janapadas belonged to the region commonly known as Karṇāṭaka, i.e. the real Karṇāṭak or the modern Mysore and not the Madras littoral. This region extends from the Deccan Lavas on the north to the Moyar in the south; the western limit is, of course, the crest of the Ghats and to the south-east the border hills and scarps of the Mysore plateaus provide a fairly sharp boundary between the Moyar and the Palār. But in the north-east, the high plateaus break down into isolated basins south of the Pennar and the Cuddapah ranges. In the north the Raichur Doāb, between the Kṛṣṇa and Tungabhadrā, was the marchland between the Deccani Sultanates and Vijayanagar, which city occupied a forward position on the Tungabhadrā, near Hampi village. This doāb is still a marchland between Karnātaka, Telengāna and to a lesser extent, Mahārāṣṭra.