Dravida is mentioned as one of the kingdoms in the southern part of present-day mainland India during the time of the Mahabharata. Its territories were supposed to have included the southernmost parts of the modern-day states of Tamil Nadu and Kerala. Sometimes the name Dravida was used to denote all the southern kingdoms (like the Chera, Pandya and Chola kingdoms) collectively and sometimes as a separate kingdom.
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—Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)