Dandakaranya region is the 92 thousand square kilometers area from Abujhmar Hills in the west and the Eastern Ghats in the east, spread in Chhatisgarh, Orissa, and Andhra Pradesh states. It is an undulating plateau and seems to be the place of the exiled / punished in the ancient times. Abujhmar Hills are known to be the rich Iron sources. Dandakaranya made the gateway to Vindyas in earlier times.