Chapter 10 — Ayodhya Kanda, Sarga 10

Valmiki Ramayana — Ayodhya Kanda

Verse 10.22

यावदावर्तते चक्रं तावती मे वसुंधरा॥ द्राविडाः सिन्धुसौवीराः सौराष्टा दक्षिणापथाः वङ्गाङ्गमगधा मत्स्याः समृद्धाः काशिकोसलाः॥

yāvadāvartate cakraṃ tāvatī me vasuṃdharā|| drāviḍāḥ sindhusauvīrāḥ saurāṣṭā dakṣiṇāpathāḥ vaṅgāṅgamagadhā matsyāḥ samṛddhāḥ kāśikosalāḥ||

English Meaning

The space that is lighted up by the solar disc is mine, the Dravidas, and the Sindhus, and the Sauvīras, and Surāṣtras and the Dakṣiṇāpathas, and the Bangas, and the Angas, and the Māgadhas, and the Matsyas, and the flourishing Kāsis and the K salas.

M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)