The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c33.6

c33.6

Sir R. G. Bhandarkar, writing in 1896, observed that for some three centuries after the extinction of the Āndhra dynasty ‘we have no specific information about the dynasties that ruled over the country’. Although since that date some additional knowledge has been acquired concerning the rulers of the southern part of the table-land, especially the Kadambas,² who governed Kanara and the northern districts of Mysore between the third and sixth centuries, the particulars gleaned by archaeologists are not of sufficient general interest to justify detailed notice of them in this work. Mahārāshtra, the western portion of the territory, seems to have been under the rule of princes belonging to the Rāshtrakūta or Ratta clan, which, long afterwards, in the middle of the eighth century, became the ruling power in the Deccan for a time.