Book Title: Political History Of Ancient India
Author(s): Hemchandra Raychaudhari
Publisher: University of Calcutta

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________________ 412 POLITICAL HISTORY OF ANCIENT INDIA of Kana rese origin. Mr. 0. C. Gangoly points out that in some class of literature a distinction is suggested between the Āndhras and the Sātavāhanas. In the Epigraphia Indica, ? Dr. Sukthankar edited an inscription of Siri-Pulumāvi, “king of the Sātavālianas,” which refers to a place called Sātavahanihāra. The place finds mention also in the Hirahadagalli copper-plate inscription of the Pallava king Siva-skandavarman in the slightly altered form of Sātāhani-rattha. Dr. Sukthankar suggests that the territorial division Sátavahani-Sātāhani must have comprised a good portion of the modern Bellary district of the Madras Presidency, and that it was the original home of the Sātavāhana family. Other indications point to the territory immediately south of the Madhyadeśa as the original home of the Sātavāhana-Sātakarnis. The Vinaya Texts 4 mention a town called “Setakannika” which lay on the southern frontier of the Majjhima-desa. It is significant that the earliest records of the Sātakarņis are found in the Northern Deccan and Central India ; and the Hathigamphā Inscription of Khāravela, king of Orissa, refers to the family as 'protecting the Wesť. The name 'Andhra' probably came to be Nāyanikā and a brother-in-law of śātakarņi (No. 3 of the list) and a son of Mahārathi Tranakayiro. This is negatived by the Nānāghāt epigraph which refers to the Mahārathi as Amgiya (or Ambhiya ) kulavardhana, whereas both the śātakarņis belong to the family of Simuka śātavāhana according to Purānic evidence. Gautami-Balasri who is turned into a sister or clan-sister of Sivasvāti (JASB, 1927, 590) refers merely to her position as a badhū, mātā, and pitamahi, but never for once suggests that she herself sprang from the family the restoration of whose glory is referred to in exulting terms. 1 JAHRS, XI, pp 1 and 2. PP 14-15. The Andhras contributed one melody which is recognised in the musical literature of India as Andhri, while the sātavāhanas contributed another named after them as sātavāhani according to the text of the Brihat-Deśi. 2 Vol. XIV (1917). 3 See also Annals of the Bhandarkar Institute, 1918-19, p. 21, 'On the Home of the so-called Andhra Kings.'-V. S. Sukthankar. Cf. JRAS., 1923, 89 f. 4 S, B. E., XVII, 38.

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