page_title: Dandakaranya
hierarchical_section_title: Dandakaranya
caption_attribution_description: Chhattisgarh State (India) with district boundries and city marks - Self Made - w:User:Miljoshi - Jan 2006 Note: co-ordinates are estimated, and may not be exactly accurate.
context_page_description: Dandakaranya is a historical region in India, mentioned in the Ramayana. It is identified with a territory roughly equivalent to the Bastar division in the Chhattisgarh state in the central-east part of India. It covers about 92,200 square kilometres of land, which includes the Abujhmar Hills in the west and the Eastern Ghats in the east, including regions of Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Odisha states. It spans about 300 kilometres from north to south and about 500 kilometres from east to west. Dandakaranya roughly translates from Sanskrit to "The Jungle of Punishment.
  The Balaghat district of Madhya Pradesh and Bhandara, Gondia and Gadchiroli districts of Maharashtra are part of the ancient region Dandakaranya.
context_section_description: Dandakaranya is a historical region in India, mentioned in the Ramayana. It is identified with a territory roughly equivalent to the Bastar division in the Chhattisgarh state in the central-east part of India.  It covers about 92,200 square kilometres (35,600 sq mi) of land, which includes the Abujhmar Hills in the west and the Eastern Ghats in the east, including regions of Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Odisha states. It spans about 300 kilometres (200 mi) from north to south and about 500 kilometres (300 mi) from east to west. Dandakaranya roughly translates from Sanskrit to "The Jungle (aranya) of Punishment (dandakas").
  The Balaghat district of Madhya Pradesh and Bhandara, Gondia and Gadchiroli districts of Maharashtra are part of the ancient region Dandakaranya.
caption: Dandakaranya is geographically equivalent to Bastar division which covers bottom three districts (named Kanker, Bastar and Dantewada) in this 2007 district map of Chhattisgarh; since then these 3 districts have been divided into more districts
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