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Andhra Culture.
76' ANDHRA KARNATA JAINISM.
The early years of the fourth century A.D. saw the break-up of the Satavahana power and empire. “Did it involve a break-up of civilisation and culture ? Did it involve tire throwing of the empire of the Satavahanas in the Deccan into a chaos of warring forces which destroyed
all elements of culture in the land ? nuity of One result of this break-up which must
have occurred about the year 302 A.D.-for there is a coin of a Satavahana' king bearing that date,-- was to give a chance to some of the local dynasties to come into power and use it for the protection of culture and the maintenance of its continuity under new' auspices. Of such dynasties that emerged into power and established local sovereignties and spheres of influence may be mentioned the Abhiras ar Kalachuris or Haihayas, the Rāshtrakūtas and the Kadambas on the ruins of whose power the Chalukyas claim to have built up their empire in the Deccan. That the particular dynasty by subduing whom the Chalukyas came to sovereign power were the Kadambas is manifest from the style of “ Mānavyasa gotra Haritiputra, etc.,” which they have adopted from their Kadamba predecessors, for, so far as can be gathered from inscriptions, the Kadambas were the earliest South Indian dynasty to adopt this style.
The problem, therefore, arises,-- are the Chalukyas a North Indian race or warrior clan who immigrated to the Deccan and profited
