04-29-2007, 03:22 AM
<!--QuoteBegin-ramana+Apr 29 2007, 06:18 AM-->QUOTE(ramana @ Apr 29 2007, 06:18 AM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->Is there a good history of the Telugu Speaking people? I think they are the most under rated people of South India.
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Will take a stab at one aspect - mainly from my scratch pads, notes etc....
The original home of Satavahanas, is the region corresponding to the Bellary and Adoni Talukas of Bellary District. The small district lying at the foothills of the Srisaila hill corresponding to the Nandyala, Nandikotkur, and Markapur talukas of Kurnool district was known in ancient times by the names of Kanna Vishaya, Kannadu and Karnatasima.--- Kanna (Telugu) = Karna (Sanskrit). --Karna (abb. of Satakarna) kings, appear to have orginally inhabited this area.
It is also evident, that the tract of the country comprising the Bellary and Adoni Talukas of the Bellary district ( 1937), was the home of Satavahanas and is not far from Nandikotkur (Kurnool Taluka only separated the two areas) is the home of Satakarnis.
And the Kurnool, Pathikonda, Dronachalam, Nandyala, Nandikotkur, and Markapur Talukas of the Kurnool District, and the Bellary and Adoni Talukas of Bellary district formed the cradle land of the Andhra kings. River Andirika (Hundri) originates in the hilly region of Pattikonda and Dronachallam Talukas of Kurnool District, flows through Kurnool Taluka and falls into Tungabhadra near Kurnool.
The name of the river means a river that flows in the land of the Andhras. And naturally the tracts around this area bear the names of Satavahanas and Satakarnis. This Andhra country gradually extended to its South and East.
Andhrapatha or the country of Andhras extended along banks of rivers Krishna and Tungabhadra, from the Bay Of Bengal to Parigi in the Hindupur Taluka of the
Anantapur District, and the Satavahini Rashtra and Kanna Vishaya, the original home of Satavahana and the Satakarni kings, were included in it. Satakarni kings
ruled the whole of Dakshinapatha (Deccan) for nearly four and a half centuries, perhaps by reducing to subjection all the kindred tribes inhabiting the territory corresponding to the present Telugu and kannada states/countries, before undertaking the conquest of far distant lands in the north. The reduction of the Andhra tribes and their unification into a nation under a single monarch must have preceded the establishment of the Mauryan empire in Northern India.
(Incidentally) the Andhras and the Karnatakas appear to have remained a single, united people during Asoka's time.
Andhra Satavahana kings, apart from being lords of Dakshinapatha, associated themselves with the imperial Magadhan rulers, in the North. Srimuka (simuka) who
was in the service of of the last prince of Kanva dynasty, Susarma, rose to powerful positions, and ultimately commander of the imperial Magadhan forces, and deposed the king and usurped the Magadhan throne.
As per Indian Sources the Andhra dynasty ruled for 506 years, from 833 B.C. to 327 B.C., Chandraguptha of the Guptha dynasty, who was in the service of imperial Andhra dynasty, put to death the last of the Andhra prince Chandrasri, and Puloman III , in the year 327 B.C. This Guptha Dynasty ruled till 82 B.C. Samudra Guptha son of Chandra Guptha ascended the throne in 320 B.C. and ruled for 51 years, till 269 B.C.
It was during his rule that Alexander came to India, got defeated and had to return and die on the return route. <b>It was not during Maurya Chandra Guptha - 1200 years earlier as our eminent (biblical) historians wants us to believe</b>
The age of Satavahanas is highly important in the evolution of cultural, religious, linguistic, and national evolution of Bharat.
But our historians are far too busy with revolutions and rubbish to study, research and write an authentic account - of Bharat.
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Will take a stab at one aspect - mainly from my scratch pads, notes etc....
The original home of Satavahanas, is the region corresponding to the Bellary and Adoni Talukas of Bellary District. The small district lying at the foothills of the Srisaila hill corresponding to the Nandyala, Nandikotkur, and Markapur talukas of Kurnool district was known in ancient times by the names of Kanna Vishaya, Kannadu and Karnatasima.--- Kanna (Telugu) = Karna (Sanskrit). --Karna (abb. of Satakarna) kings, appear to have orginally inhabited this area.
It is also evident, that the tract of the country comprising the Bellary and Adoni Talukas of the Bellary district ( 1937), was the home of Satavahanas and is not far from Nandikotkur (Kurnool Taluka only separated the two areas) is the home of Satakarnis.
And the Kurnool, Pathikonda, Dronachalam, Nandyala, Nandikotkur, and Markapur Talukas of the Kurnool District, and the Bellary and Adoni Talukas of Bellary district formed the cradle land of the Andhra kings. River Andirika (Hundri) originates in the hilly region of Pattikonda and Dronachallam Talukas of Kurnool District, flows through Kurnool Taluka and falls into Tungabhadra near Kurnool.
The name of the river means a river that flows in the land of the Andhras. And naturally the tracts around this area bear the names of Satavahanas and Satakarnis. This Andhra country gradually extended to its South and East.
Andhrapatha or the country of Andhras extended along banks of rivers Krishna and Tungabhadra, from the Bay Of Bengal to Parigi in the Hindupur Taluka of the
Anantapur District, and the Satavahini Rashtra and Kanna Vishaya, the original home of Satavahana and the Satakarni kings, were included in it. Satakarni kings
ruled the whole of Dakshinapatha (Deccan) for nearly four and a half centuries, perhaps by reducing to subjection all the kindred tribes inhabiting the territory corresponding to the present Telugu and kannada states/countries, before undertaking the conquest of far distant lands in the north. The reduction of the Andhra tribes and their unification into a nation under a single monarch must have preceded the establishment of the Mauryan empire in Northern India.
(Incidentally) the Andhras and the Karnatakas appear to have remained a single, united people during Asoka's time.
Andhra Satavahana kings, apart from being lords of Dakshinapatha, associated themselves with the imperial Magadhan rulers, in the North. Srimuka (simuka) who
was in the service of of the last prince of Kanva dynasty, Susarma, rose to powerful positions, and ultimately commander of the imperial Magadhan forces, and deposed the king and usurped the Magadhan throne.
As per Indian Sources the Andhra dynasty ruled for 506 years, from 833 B.C. to 327 B.C., Chandraguptha of the Guptha dynasty, who was in the service of imperial Andhra dynasty, put to death the last of the Andhra prince Chandrasri, and Puloman III , in the year 327 B.C. This Guptha Dynasty ruled till 82 B.C. Samudra Guptha son of Chandra Guptha ascended the throne in 320 B.C. and ruled for 51 years, till 269 B.C.
It was during his rule that Alexander came to India, got defeated and had to return and die on the return route. <b>It was not during Maurya Chandra Guptha - 1200 years earlier as our eminent (biblical) historians wants us to believe</b>
The age of Satavahanas is highly important in the evolution of cultural, religious, linguistic, and national evolution of Bharat.
But our historians are far too busy with revolutions and rubbish to study, research and write an authentic account - of Bharat.