Indische Palaographie von circa 350 a. Chr. – circa 1300 p. Chr. c24.s3.7
Indische Paläographie von circa 350 a. Chr. – circa 1300 p. Chr. c24.s3.7
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c24.s3.7
§ 85. The Andhras. — The Andhras (Andhrabhṛtyas or Sātavāhanas), though classed by the Purāṇas among the rulers of Magadha, are, in historical times, a Southern Indian power, the capital of which was Dhānyakaṭaka Dharanikot or Amarāvatī on the Kistna in the Gantur Dist. of Madras (C., Geog. p. 540). But as, during the period for which the evidence of coins is available, their history is closely connected with that of the Kṣaharātas and the Kṣatrapas of Surāṣṭra and Malwa, and as the style of some of the coins themselves bears witness to this fact, it will be most convenient to discuss them here.