Geography of Early Buddhism c10.7

c10.7

A brahmin youth after completing his education at Takka-silā (Taxila), then a great seat of learning, came to the Andhra country to profit by practical experience (Jāt. I, pp. 356 ff.). The people of Andhradeśa, i.e., the Andhras, are also referred to in the Rock Edicts V and XIII of Asoka as a vassal tribe. Andhradeśa is the country between the Godāvari and the Krishnā including the district of Krishnā. The capital of the Andhradeśa seems to have been Dhanakataka which was visited by Yuan Chwang. But the earliest Andhra capital (Andhapura) was situated on the Telavāha river, identical probably with modern Tel or Telingiri both flowing near the confines of the Madras Presidency and the Central Provinces. (PHAI., p. 196 and f.n. 4).