Traditionally, Pancavaṭi is identified with a place near Nasik at the source of the Godavari, and Kiṣkinda with Hampi in Karnataka on the banks of the Tungabhadra. The distance between these two is over 800 kilometers, at the standard 11 kilometers a day that would have taken more than two months on foot with no river to guide their path. If we consider Rama as a normal human being and the story a fact, it is hard to agree with these locations.
