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GEOGRAPHY
has not been as yet identified. If this spelling of the name be correct, it may be taken to have represented the place of origin of the śātakarņis.
VI Dakkhiņāpatha or Dākşiņâtya (Deccan): This represents South India which, according to the Kāvya-mīmāṁsā, extended southward from Măbişmati identified with Mandhātā on the Narmadā. According to the Jambudīva-pannatti, as we noted, it was the southern half of India to the south of the Vaitādhya or Vindhya range. From the Buddhist definition of the Mid-land, it appears that this part of Jambudīpa lay to the south of the river Salalavati and the town of Satakaņņikā. The Godāvari and Narmadā regions are definitely placed in Dakkhiņāpatha. Besides the Nammadā and Godhāvari, the early Pali texts mention these two rivers of South India: Kāverī and Kaņņapeņņā (Sk. Krsnabeņā).1 The former is the famous river Kävers which flowed into the sea through the Coļa country of which we have a most patriotic description in the writings of Buddhadatta. The Kannapenna was a river in the Mahiņsaka country or Mysore. Patitthāna (modern Paithan) on the Godhāvari is described as the southern terminus of the Southern High
1 Jötaka, v, p. 182f. 9 Buddhadatta's Manuals, PTS.
3 Malalasekera, op. cit., i, p. 498: 'At the bend of the river and near its source was the mountain Candaka'.
