The Early History of the Deccan (Parts I–XI) v1.c7.s6.18

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The infant Andhra power, faced with a situation like this, could not hope to do more than to consolidate and preserve its strength at home. The Bactrians had so far followed the courses of rivers and travelled along plains in their wanderings. The difficult country separating the Sātavāhana kingdom from the Greek dominions in the north was, however, not destined to prove a barrier much longer. The Greeks had become the masters of Surāṣṭra, and the western reaches of the Sātavāhana kingdom were now not far away from them. The defence of their northern and western boundaries became the dominant concern of the successors of Kaṇha during that fateful half-century which followed the death of Aśoka.