Kallidaikurichi Aiyah Nilakanta Sastri. A history of South India from prehistoric times to the fall of Vijayanagar. Oxford University Press, 1976. «... The Vindhya range was the recognized southern limit of the Aryan land. Manu states distinctly that the country between the Himalayas and the Vindhyas and between the eastern and western oceans comprised Aryavarta, the abode of the Aryas ...»