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92 POLITICAL HISTORY OF ANCIENT INDIA
Aryan and non-Aryan, namely, the Bhoja kingdoms, one of which was Vidarbha, and another, probably, Daņdaka, as well as Aśmaka and Kalinga. With the exception of these organised states the whole of Trans-Vindhyan India was occupied by non-Aryan (dasyu) tribes such as the Andhras, Savaras, Pulindas and probably also the Mūtibas.!
In the opinion of Dr. Smith the Andhras were à Dravidian people, now represented by the large population speaking the Telugu language, who occupied the deltas of the Godāvari' and the Krishņā. Mr. P. T. Srīnivās Iyengar argues that the Andhras were originally a Vindhyan tribe and that the extension of Andhra power was from the west to the east down the Godāvari and Krishņā valleys.2 Dr. Bhandarkar points out that the Serivāņij Jātaka places Andhapura, i.e., the pura or capital of the Andhras, on the river Telavāha which he identifies with the modern Tel or Telingiri. But if "Seri” or Sri-rājya 4 refers to the Ganga kingdom of Mysore, Telavāba may have been another name of the Tungabhadrā-Krishṇā, and Andhapura identical with Bezvāda or some neighbouring city. The Mayidavolu plates of the early Pallava ruler Sivaskanda-varman prove that the Andhra country (Andhrāpatha) embraced the lower valley of the Krishņa and had its centre at Dhaññakada i.e., Bezvāda, or some neighbouring city on the south bank of the
1 Ait. Br., VII. 18. 2 Ind. Ant., 1913, pp. 276-78.
3 Ind. Ant., 1918. p. 71. There is also a river called "Ter" in South India. Ep. Ind., XXII. 29.
4 Mysore and Coorg from Inscriptions, 38. 'Seri' may also refer to Sri Vijaya or Sri Vishaya ( Sumatra ? ).
5 The name Telavāha, oil-carrier, reminds one of the passages 'vikhyāta Krishna-vernā (= Krishna) taila-snehopalabdha saralatva" (1A, VIII. 17, cf. Ep. XII. 153.)-'with a smoothness caused by sesame oil of the famous (river) Krishna
