The Geographical Dictionary of Ancient and Mediaeval India c5.s2.97

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Bengi—The capital of Andhra, situated north-west of the Elur lake between the Godâvarî and the Kṛiṣhṇa in the Kistna district. It is now called Begî or Pedda-Begî (*Sewell's Sketch of the Dynasties of Southern India*, p. 99). Viṣhṇuvardhana, brother of Pulakeśî II, founded here a branch of the Chalukya dynasty in the seventh century A.D. (see *Andhra*). Its name is mentioned in the *Vikramâṅkadevacharita*, VI, p. 26 (see Buhler's note in the *Introduction* to this work at p. 35). From the capital, the country was also called Bengi-deśa which according to Sir W. Elliot, comprised the districts between the Kṛiṣhṇa and the Godâvarî (*JRAS.*, vol. IV). It is now called the Northern Circars (*Dr. Wilson's Indian Castes*, vol. II, p. 88). Its original boundaries were, on the west the Eastern Ghats, on the north the Godâvarî and on the south the Kṛiṣhṇa (*Bomb. Gaz.*, vol. I, Pt. II, p. 280).