南印度

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南印度(Dakshinapatha)

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Thus, initially, Dakshinapatha, as high road, ran between Rajgriha and Pratisthana (Paithan). Later, on expansion of Aryan culture deep into southern India, it also extended further into the south running parellel to west-coast and following probably through Bijapur, Bengalore and Madura to Setu, the southern tip of India.

In Gupta period, Dakshinaptha as a region extended from the land of the Kosalas to the kingdom of Kanchi. In later times however, it had embraced the whole of Trans-Vindhya India from Setu (Adam's Bridge) to Narmada.

Ancient Dakshinapatha later gave its name to modern Deccan or Dekkan.

The Dakshinapatha was famous in literature as the birthplace of strong bullocks. It also held a home to large number of ascetics.

From notices made above, it is clear that, in the earlier literature at any rate, the word Dakshinapatha did not mean it initially comprised the whole country in the modern word Dekkhan or Deccan.

Like Dakshinapatha, Uttarapatha was initially the name of northern high road which ran from Tamraliptika or Tamluk located in west Bengal through Pataliputra, Vaisali, Kusinara, Kapilvastu, Savathi, Hastinapura, through Panjab, Taxila, Puskaravati (Pushkalavati) and Kabol up to Zariaspa (Balkh) in Bactria. Later, Uttarapatha was also the name lent to the region of Indian sub-continent through which this high road passed. One early Medieval era Brahmanical text attests the Uttarapatha as the region lying to the west of Prithudaka (modern Pehoa near Thaneswar in Haryana). The Uttarpatha had formed the northern division of Puranic Jambudvipa.

The philosophies of the easterners were disseminated precisely by the intercourse that went on along the Uttarapatha and the Dakshinpatha high routes. These were also the high roads which the horse-dealers from Kamboja of Uttarapatha had followed for trading horses with southern India and Sri Lanka.