Studies in the Geography of Ancient and Medieval India c27.2

c27.2

The Sanskrit name Kṛṣṇa was often modified in South India as Kandara, Kandāra, Kandhara, Kandhāra, Kanhara, Kanhāra, Kannara and Kannāra.¹ Sometimes the same name is found in the joint form Kṛṣṇa-Kandhara or Kṛṣṇa-Kandhāra.² The Prakrit name Kannara was also sometimes re-Sanskritised as Karṇa.³ The earliest use of such a Prakrit form of the name is to be found in that of Kandara who was the founder of the Ānanda dynasty of Kandarapura in the Guntur District of Andhra Pradesh and flourished in the fourth century A.D.⁴