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Ok, that's not the point here. "Khanda" literally means "continent", so "Bharata Khanda" means the "Indian continent", or as is roughly equivalent in modern days, the "Indian subcontinent". I looked, and even regentspark looked for an equivalent term used by scholars to refer to
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1) NEVER ANYWHERE in our surviving religious scriptures was or is ANY part of this whole earth, let alone 'Northern India' referred to as the 'dominion of Gods etc'. One may not be aware of their being referred to 'with great respect' and 'mystery' as well (unless some North
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Firstly I would like to bring to your attention of the term, Ancient India. The name India was given by the
British who adopted it from the Greek classification of Northern India and Pakistan as Indica. Indica was adopted by the Greeks from the river Indus which as called Hindu by the Persians. No
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Dravida, Mahisha and Lanka Kingdoms listed here when they are not mentioned in the Mahabharata? I do not know where from Mahisha comes but Lanka was mentioned only in the Ramayana and was different from present-day Sri Lanka (or Sinhala in the Mahabharata). Also there was no separate
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As for the Central and Northern parts of the map, I have not objections. I do see the names of the kingdoms labelled on the map correctly as it is in the Mahabharata as well as in the Indian history books. Please make the correction to the map if possible. Thank you.
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There is an error of 1,200 years in Indian history as its read or known today. The basis of confusion is the Megasthenes's accounts whose Chandra Gupta of Gupta dynasty was erroneously taken as Chandragupta Maurya by the Western, chiefly, the British historians.
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514:- To the left of the label Dravida in the Southern Central part of the map is Karanataka. Karanataka or Karnataka is the name of the state which borders Tamil Nadu and Kerala. The actual name of the kingdom there is Chalukya.
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dynasty or kingdom called Dravida. Present-day Deep South of India was in Sanskrit referred to as Dravida, and the Dravidas meant the Cheras, Pandyas and Cholas and other dynasties in the Deep South.
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