The Cambridge History of India, Vol. I: Ancient India v1.c30.109

v1.c30.109

On two occasions, according to the inscriptional record, did Khāravela invade the Andhra dominions in the Deccan. In his second year he sent a large army of horse, elephants, foot-soldiers, and chariots to the West in defiance of Çātakarṇi; and in his fourth year he humbled the Rāshtrikas of the Marāthā Country and the Bhojakas of Berār, both feudatories of the Andhra kings of Pratishṭhāna (pp. 530–1). Such expeditions were undoubtedly in the nature of a challenge to the predominant power of the Deccan;