Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c7.2304

Purāṇic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Purāṇic Literature c7.2304

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c7.2304

(2) When describing the various places in the Southern part of Bhārata, names such as Dramiḍa, Kerala, Mūsika, Karṇāṭaka etc. occur in the Mahābhārata. So it is to be understood that when Vyāsa wrote Bhārata, there was the kingdom of Kerala and that it was separate from the country of Drāviḍa. (M.B. Bhīṣma Parva, Chapter 9).

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Mahābhārata — Vyāsa, Sanskrit