[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [Political History of Ancient India, from the Accession of Parikshit to the Extinction of the Gupta Dynasty](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.raychaudhuri-1923) › c19.s2.t2.10 # Political History of Ancient India, from the Accession of Parikshit to the Extinction of the Gupta Dynasty c19.s2.t2.10 Political History of Ancient India, from the Accession of Parikshit to the Extinction of the Gupta Dynasty c19.s2.t2.10 - **Language:** English ### [c19.s2.t2.10](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.raychaudhuri-1923.c19.s2.t2.10) It is from the ranks of military governors and feudatories that the princes who carved out independent principalities on the dissolution of the Sātavāhana empire, evidently sprang. The Śālaṅkāyanas (Salakenoi), for example, who appear to have been a feudatory family in the Andhra country, afterwards set up an independent sovereignty. The Pallavas were doubtless connected with the military governors of the Bellary district. - [Previous: c19.s2.t2.9](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.raychaudhuri-1923.c19.s2.t2.9) - [Next: c19.s2.t3.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.raychaudhuri-1923.c19.s2.t3.1) - [Up: c19.s2.t2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.raychaudhuri-1923.c19.s2.t2) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.raychaudhuri-1923.c19.s2.t2.10](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.raychaudhuri-1923.c19.s2.t2.10) · Pramāṇa