Dandakaranya

It covers about 92,200 square kilometres (35,600 sq mi) of land, which includes the Abujhmar Hills in the west and borders the Eastern Ghats in the east, including regions of Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Odisha, and Telangana states.

[1] It was the site of the Danda kingdom in Hindu mythology, a stronghold of the rakshasa tribes.

The Dandakaranya zone was the location of the turning point in the Ramayana, a famous Sanskrit epic.

The plot for the divine objectives to uproot the rakshasas from the land was formulated here.

It is described to have stretched from Narmada to the Godavari and Krishna Rivers according to the epic.

Shukracharya advises his daughter Aruja to remain beside the lake near his hermitage while a dust storm devastates the accursed kingdom of Danda