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Dakshinapatha is an important historical region which is an ancient equivalent of present day South India or Deccan plateau and which may mean; * the "Ancient South of the Indian subcontinent" below Uttarapatha. The term can encompass Dravida, Simhala, the Kollam region, and the Maldives.In the south region * the "great southern highway" in India, traveling from Magadha to Pratishthana, or * a kingdom on the Godavari River in southern India