Historical Geography of Ancient India c7.528

c7.528

Śavaradeśa.—It is somewhere in the Dakṣiṇāpatha (Matsya Purāṇa, 144, 46-8; Vāyu Purāṇa, 45, 126). The Mahābhārata (XII, 207, 42) places it in the Deccan. Ptolemy (McCrindle, Ptolemy's Ancient India, ed. S. N. Majumdar, p. 173) mentions a country called Sabarai which is generally held to be identical with the region inhabited by the Śavaras. Cunningham identifies the Sabarai of Ptolemy with Pliny's Suari. According to him Śavaradeśa extended as far southward as the Pennar river. For further details vide Law, Tribes in Ancient India, p. 172.