Historical Geography of Ancient India c7.260

c7.260

Kāverī (or Kāviri).—It is the name of a river which starting from Coorg passes through the districts of Coimbatore, Trichinopoly, and falls into the Bay of Bengal. It is called ‘the beloved of the Pallavas’. This means that a Pallava king ruled over the country along the banks of the Kāverī river (S.I.I., I, p. 29). This river is mentioned in the Rāmāyaṇa (Kiṣkindhyākāṇḍa, XLI, 21, 25; cf. Harivaṃśa, XXVII, 1416-22; cf.