draviqa m. N. of a people (regarded as degraded Kṣatriya s and said to be descendants of Draviḍa , son of Vṛṣabha-svāmin , Śatr. ) and of a district on the east coast of the Deccan, Mn. ; Var. ; MBh. &c.
draviqa N. of a country to the south of the wild tract between the Kṛṣṇā and the Polar. In its larger sense it included the whole of the Coromandel coast to the south of the Godāvarī. But in its strict sense it must not have extended beyond the Kāverī. Its capital was Kāñcī, the same as Conjeveram situated on the Vegavatī river 42 miles southwest of Madras.