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diff --git a/C++/Algorithm/Searching/dfsRecursive.cpp b/C++/Algorithm/Searching/dfsRecursive.cpp
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+/*
+    Author : Krutika Bhatt
+    Date : 07/10/2021
+    Description : Depth-first search (DFS) is an algorithm for traversing elements in 2D Matrix
+*/
+
+/* 
+    Time Complexity : O(M*N)
+    Space Complexity : O(M*N)
+    here, M is the number of rows and N is the number of columns
+*/
+
+#include <bits/stdc++.h>
+
+using namespace std;
+
+
+void DFSrecursive(int grid[][4],int row,int col,bool visited[][4]) {
+
+    int length = 4;
+    int height = 4;
+
+     if (row < 0 || col < 0 || row >= length || col >= height || visited[row][col]) {
+         return;
+     }
+           
+
+    //mark the cell visited
+    visited[row][col] = true;
+
+    cout << grid[row][col] << " ";
+
+    DFSrecursive(grid, row+ 1, col,visited); // go right to that cell in matrix
+    DFSrecursive(grid, row- 1, col,visited); //go left to that cell in matrix
+    DFSrecursive(grid, row, col + 1,visited); //go down to that cell in matrix
+    DFSrecursive(grid, row, col - 1,visited); // go up to that cell in matrix
+
+}
+void DFS(int grid[4][4]) {
+ 
+    // Maintain a boolean 2D Array to check if the elements are visited or not 
+    bool visited[4][4];
+    memset(visited, false, sizeof visited);
+
+    // Start the DFS recursive function with start row=0 and start col=0
+    DFSrecursive(grid,0,0,visited);
+}
+
+int main() {
+
+    int grid[4][4] = {
+                {1, 2, 3, 4},
+                {5, 6, 7, 8},
+                {9, 10, 11, 12},
+                {13, 14, 15, 16}
+        };
+
+    cout <<"The Depth first traversal to the matrix is : ";
+    DFS(grid);
+
+    return 0;
+}