Tribes in Ancient India c77.18

c77.18

The Daṇḍakas are undoubtedly the people dwelling in the Daṇḍaka forest celebrated in the *Rāmāyaṇa* in connection with the story of Rāma’s exile. According to the description in the *Rāmāyaṇa*, the forest seems to have covered almost the whole of Central India from the Bundelkhand region to the Godāvarī,² but the *Mahābhārata* seems to limit the Daṇḍaka forest to the source of the Godāvarī.³