Political History of Ancient India, from the Accession of Parikshit to the Extinction of the Gupta Dynasty c14.s3.61

c14.s3.61

The **Andhras** are, as we have already seen, mentioned in a passage of the *Aitareya Brāhmaṇa*. The **Bhojas** are also mentioned in that work as rulers of the south.¹ Pliny, quoting probably from Megasthenes says that the Andarae (Andhras) possessed numerous villages, thirty towns defended by walls and towers, and supplied their king with an army of 100,000 infantry, 2,000 cavalry and 1,000 elephants.² The earliest Andhra capital (Andhapura) was situated on the Telavāha river which, according to Dr. D. R. Bhandarkar, is either the modern Tel or Telingiri, both flowing near the confines of the Madras Presidency and the Central Provinces. But the identification is by no means certain.³ The Palidas were identified by Bühler with the Pulindas¹ who are invariably associated with the Nerbudda (Revā) and the Vindhyan region:—