The Cambridge History of India, Vol. I: Ancient India v1.c30.96

v1.c30.96

During the first quarter of the first century B.C., such dominion as the Andhras may have exercised over the region now known as Mālwa must have been restricted to its western portion, Avanti, of which Ujjayinī was the capital; for the Çuṅga kings were still in possession of Ākara or E. Mālwa (capital Vidiçā). But there is evidence that, presumably at some date after c. 72 B.C. when the Çuṅgas came to an end, E. Mālwa also was annexed by the Andhras. An inscription (no. 346) on one of the Bhilsa Topes (Sānchī, no. 1) records a donation made in the reign of a king Çātakarṇi, who cannot be identified more precisely, but who must certainly have been an Andhra. The inscription is not dated; but there is now a general consensus among archaeologists that it probably belongs to about the middle of the first century B.C.³