The Geographical Dictionary of Ancient and Mediaeval India c5.s3.8

c5.s3.8

Dakshiṇa-Patha—The Deccan: the name was applied to that portion of the Indian Peninsula lying to the south of the Narbada. It is the Dakhinabades of the Greeks. (Matsya P., ch. 114 and Dr. Bhandarkar’s Early History of the Dekkan, Sec. I; Rājaśekhara’s Bālarāmāyaṇa, Act VI; Apte’s Rājaśekhara: his Life and Writings, p. 21). The name was originally confined to a remote settlement of the Aryans on the Upper Godāvari (Vinaya Piṭhaka, I, 195, 196; II, 298).