The Early History of the Deccan (Parts I–XI) v1.c6.s7.6

v1.c6.s7.6

The āhāra tends to disappear after the Sātavāhana age. It is rarely met with in the succeeding period, and even when the expression actually forms part of the name of a district it is often followed by the term viṣaya,² which is the most common designation of districts since the period of the Guptas in the north, and the Kadambas in the south. Some of the Pallava and Ikshvāku monarchs show a preference for the old term raṭṭha or rāṣṭra. We have reference in their records to the Sātāhani-raṭṭha (Bellāry District), Kammaka-raṭha (Karmāṅka-rāṣṭra, parts of Guntūr and Nellore), Tompuki-raṭha, the identity of which is uncertain but which could not have been situated far away from Amarāvatī, and Veṅgo-rāṣṭra (between the Godāvarī and the Kṛṣṇā). Like the āhāras the rāṣṭras too are in several cases transformed into viṣayas. Thus we have reference to a Gopa-rāṣṭra-viṣaya in a Chālukya epigraph attributed to the reign of Pulakeśin II. The Pḷaki-rāṣṭra of the time of Indravarman is referred to in Eastern Chālukya records as Pḷaki- or Paḷaki-viṣaya.³