Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c5.991

c5.991

“There are other countries also in the southern Bhārata such as Dravida, Kerala, Prācya, Mūṣika, Vanavāsika Karṇāṭaka, Mahiṣaka, Vikalpa and Mūṣaka.” This statement (M.B. Bhīṣma Parva, Chapter 9) throws light on the various countries which existed in South India at the time of Mahābhārata. In Bhāgavata, Skandha 10, it is mentioned that Kaṃsa, the uncle of Śrī Kṛṣṇa, was the son of Dramila, a gandharva. (See under Kaṃsa).