The Early History of the Deccan (Parts I–XI) v1.c6.s6.t4.2

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The commentator on the *Kauṭilīya Arthaśāstra* identifies Aśmaka with Mahārāṣṭra. Rājaśekhara, however, mentions them as distinct entities in the *Kāvyamīmāṃsā*. The difference of opinion may be due to the fact that Aśmaka lay on the borderland between Marāṭhawāra and Teliṅgāna and may have embraced the Telugu district of Nizāmābād as well as the predominantly Marāṭhā-speaking district of Nānder. The territory apparently occupied the central part of the Godāvarī valley between the Nirmal Range in the north and the Bālāghāt Range in the south.