An ancient Tamil poem from about 2,000 years ago praises a king known from ‘Cape Kumari in the south’ to ‘the great mountain in the north’ and ‘the oceans on the east and west,’ describing the geographic boundaries of India.
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It is difficult to determine because ancient Indian texts are hard to date precisely. However, terms like ‘Bhāratavarṣha’ and ‘Jambudvīpa’ are found in texts such as the Mahābhārata, which was written from a few centuries BCE onward. NCERT Social Science ...