The Geographical Dictionary of Ancient and Mediaeval India c5.s1.40

c5.s1.40

Amarāvatī.—1. Nagarhāra, about two miles to the west of Jallalabad: a village close to it is still called Nagarak,—the Na-kie of Fa Hian. 2. The Amarāvatī stūpa is about 18 miles to the west of Bezwada and south of Dharaṇīkoṭa, on the south or right bank of the Kṛṣṇa river about sixty miles from its mouth in the Kṛṣṇa district, Madras Presidency. The Amarāvatī Chaitya is the Pūrvaśaila Saṅghārāma of Hiuen Tsiang (Dr. Burgess' Buddhist Stupas of Amarāvatī, p. 101). Amarāvatī is the Diamond Sands (Dipal dinne) of the Daladā Vaṃśa: it was situated in the kingdom of the Nāga Rāja (see Turnour's translation in JASB., vi., p. 856). The Amarāvatī tope was built about A.D. 370 or 380, by the Andhras or the Andhra-bhṛtya kings who were Buddhists (Sewell's Sketch of the Dynasties of Southern India, p. 1; for its description see JRAS., III, 132).