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Another early *maṇḍala* was Veṅgī which is referred to as the Veṅgī-*maṇḍala* in the Alās plates of Govinda II (A.D. 769).¹ A Kigga (Kaḍūr District) inscription of about the same age as the plates of Vinayāditya mentions the Kadamba-*maṇḍala*,² which may have meant much the same area as the Vanavāsi-*maṇḍala*. The Andhra *maṇḍala* of the Pīthāpuram Pillar inscription (A.D. 1186), over which Goṅka I ruled as a vassal of the Cālukyas of Veṅgī-*maṇḍala*, may have corresponded to the Andhrāpatha of the early Pallava charters and some contiguous tracts, as his ancestor Malla I is known to have been a ruler of the ‘Ṣaṭsahasra country’ on the southern bank of the Kṛṣṇā, and his great-grandfather was the ruler of districts lying to the north of it.