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POLITICAL DIVISIONS OF THE COUNTRY 43 Gondwana of the Moghal period.'
But according to the Śrī-rangam Plates referred to above, the central tract of the Deccan plateau from the Vindhya upto the border of the southern-most Pāņdya country, was known as Trilinga. That might have been the extension, but during the mediaeval period the entire land to the south of the Godāvari was occupied by different dynasties like the Eastern Chālukyas, Western Chālukyas, Mahārāshțras, Kadambas, Banavāsis, Bāņas etc. Only a narrow strip of hilly and deeply wood-land · tract lay unoccupied along the borders of the old kingdoms of Kośala, Kalinga and Tosala.
], Orissa in the Making, p. 63f; Qtd., OHRJ, I, p. 92.
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