Dakshinapatha

The ancient Buddhist and Brahmanical texts use the expression Dakshinpatha as a name for both the southern high road and for the region lying south of Majjhimdesa or Mid India. The first reference to Dakshinapatha occurs in the Rig-Veda where it refers to the region where the exile goes on being turned out. In the opinion of several scholars, this means the South beyond the limits of the Saptasindhu-- the then recognised Aryan world. Dakshinapatha is found in Panini (IV.2.98). Baudhyana mentions Dakshina ...

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Ancient Buddhist and Brahmanical texts reveal that Uttarapatha was the name of northern division of Jambudvipa of ancient Indian traditions. Initially, the term Uttarapatha referred to the northern high road ..the main trade route that followed along the river Ganges, crossed the Indo-Gangetic watershed, ran through the Punjab to Taxila (Gandhara) and further to Zariaspa or Balkh (Bactria) in Central Asia. The eastern terminus of the Uttarapatha was Tamraliptika or Tamluk located at the mouth of Gang ...

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The Deccan Plateau is a vast plateau in India, encompassing most of Central and Southern India. It comprises the whole of peninsular India south of the Vindhya range and has an elevation which ranges from 1,500 to 2,500 feet (450 to 750 m). It is bounded in the west by the Western Ghats and in the east by the Eastern Ghats. These two formations form one of the vertex of a triangle which encompasses the plateau with the Vindhya range forming the third side. This region is one ...

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The Saka invasion of India in second century BCE was a joint military venture in which the allied tribes of the Shakas, Pahlavas, Kambojas, Paradas, Rishikas etc seem to have participated. These tribes had spread into and occupied the parts of western and south-western India. Thus, the Rishikas are attested in later literature as living in south-western/southern parts of India also. Some verses in Karanaparava and Bhishmaparava of Mahabharata composed and added during post-Christian times refer to the Rishikas in Dakshinapatha or southern India and ...

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Rishikas, Rishikas - Rishikas on Sarasvati/Greater Panjab, Rishikas - Rishikas in Saka-dvipa, Rishikas - Rishikas in South-west India, Rishikas - On Kamboja Rishika Connection?, Rishikas - Conclusions

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Ancient Sanskrit texts like Ashtadhyayi (IV.4.168-175), Ramayana (IV/41-43), Mahabharata (VII/11/16-17; VIII/8/18-20)) and numerous Puranas (Bhuvanakosa list of countries) refer to many Janapadas of ancient times. Panini's Ashtadhyayi furnishes a list of fifteen Kshatriya monarchical Janapadas viz Salveya, Gandhari, Magadha, Kalinga, Surasena, Kosala, Ajada, Kuru, Salva, Pratyagratha, Kalakuta, Ashmaka, Kamboja, Avanti and Kunti. Besides, there were those foll ...

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Janapadas, Janapadas - Origins, Janapadas - Lists

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It lies south of the Indo-Gangetic plain. It is bounded by the Western Ghats in the west, the Eastern Ghats to the east, the Nilgiris in the south and the Satpura and Vindhya ranges in the north. The plateau elevation is about 500 m on average. It is composed of black volcanic basalt soil. The chief crop is cotton, however sugarcane, rice and other crops also common. Several Indian states cover parts of the Deccan: Maharashtra covers most of the northern plateau, and Chhattisgarh the northeast corner. Andhra Pradesh covers the east-central p ...

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The name Rishika occurs in Mahabharata as a part of Saka-dvipa (2.27.25; India as Known to Panini, p 64). Lohan. Parama. Kambojan. Rishikan.uttaranapi | sahita.nstanmaharaja vyajayatpakashasanih ||2.27.25|| These northern Rishikas have been addressed as Uttara Rishikas (i.e. Rishikan.uttaranapi) and are shown as very close neighbors of the norther ...

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Rishikas, Rishikas - Rishikas on Sarasvati/Greater Panjab, Rishikas - Rishikas in Saka-dvipa, Rishikas - Rishikas in South-west India, Rishikas - On Kamboja Rishika Connection?, Rishikas - Conclusions

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The name Deccan is anglicised form of the Prakrit dakkhin, itself derived from the Sanskrit dakṣiṇa, meaning south. Ancient Dakshinapatha gave its name to modern Deccan or Dekkan. In Mahabharata, Dakshinapatha is placed beyond Avanti and Vindhyas and to south of the kingdom of Vidarbhas and southern Kosalas, the latter being lo ...

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There are not enough references in ancient literature on Rishika clan. But it looks like there is somehow, a connection between the ancient Rishikas and the ancient Kambojas. Some notable observations follow: (i) The Sabhaparava of Mahabharata portrays the Lohas, Kambojas and the Rishikas as very close neighborly and allied tribes and places them all in Saka-dvipa in trans-Himalayan territory (MBH II.27.25). (ii) Adiparva of Mahabharata collates the Kambojas and the Rishikas together and views them both as desp ...

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Rishikas, Rishikas - Rishikas on Sarasvati/Greater Panjab, Rishikas - Rishikas in Saka-dvipa, Rishikas - Rishikas in South-west India, Rishikas - On Kamboja Rishika Connection?, Rishikas - Conclusions

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The political process among the ancient Indo-Aryans appears to have originally started with semi-nomadic tribal units called Jana (Latin gens). Early Vedic texts attest several Janas or tribes of the Aryans, living in semi-nomadic tribal state, fighting among themselves and with other Non-Aryan tribes for cows, sheeps and green pastures. These early Rigvedic Janas in the course of the early Indian Iron Age coalesced into the g ...

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Janapadas, Janapadas - Origins, Janapadas - Lists

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The name Rishika occurs in Mahabharata as a part of Saka-dvipa (2.27.25; India as Known to Panini, p 64). Lohan. Parama.Kambojan.Rishikan.uttaranapi | sahita.nstanmaharaja vyajayatpakashasanih ||2.27.25|| These northern Rishikas have been addressed as Uttara Rishikas (i.e. Rishikan.uttaranapi) and are shown as very close neighbors of the norther ...

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Rishikas, Rishikas - Rishikas on Sarasvati/Greater Panjab, Rishikas - Rishikas in Saka-dvipa, Rishikas - Rishikas in South-west India, Rishikas - On Kamboja Rishika Connection?, Rishikas - Conclusions

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Matsya Purana makes us believe that the Rishikas were so called since they had descended from the Rishis or wisemen or learned parentage (Rishika.putra.rishikastu.. 145.86; See also: Vayu Purana 59.84-94; Geographical Data in Early Puranas, p 31). Since Sarasvati, in ancient times, was connected with people of scholarly lineage, Dr Singh tends to locate the Rishikas of the Puranic accounts on Sarasvati in Haryana. ...

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Rishikas, Rishikas - Rishikas on Sarasvati/Greater Panjab, Rishikas - Rishikas in Saka-dvipa, Rishikas - Rishikas in South-west India, Rishikas - On Kamboja Rishika Connection?, Rishikas - Conclusions

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