Indian Art: A History of Indian Art from the Earliest Times up to the Third Century A.D. c15.s1.2
Indian Art: A History of Indian Art from the Earliest Times up to the Third Century A.D. c15.s1.2
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Amaravati is comparatively a very modern small town named after the shrine of Amareśvara Śiva. It is situated in Guntur district eighteen miles from Bazwada on the right or south bank of Kṛṣṇa, sixty miles above its mouth. Just south of the town stood the Great Stūpa, but about half a mile west of the town are the ruins of Dharaṇikoṭa with its earthern embankments which was really once the capital of the Satavahanas under the name of Dhānyakaṭaka.