Ikshvaku inscriptions and the Krishna valley

Unified Andhra Pradesh (pre-2014)
Present-day state borders, for orientation

Where the Prakrit inscriptions of the Ikshvaku kings of Vijayapuri (3rd century CE) were found, at Nagarjunakonda and Jaggayyapeta on the Krishna, with Manchikallu, where a Prakrit pillar inscription of the Pallava king Simhavarman marks the dynasty's successors, and Banavasi, the Vanavasa whose Maharaja married a daughter of King Virapurushadatta.

Base map: Natural Earth (opens in a new tab) (public domain).

Sources

Hirananda Sastri (ed.), Epigraphia Indica, Vol. XX (1929–30) (opens in a new tab), Archaeological Survey of India, 1933, pp. 1-9, 13-15, 24, 36. J. Ph. Vogel, Prakrit Inscriptions from a Buddhist Site at Nagarjunikonda. [Public domain]
James Burgess, The Buddhist Stupas of Amaravati and Jaggayyapeta in the Krishna District, Madras Presidency, Surveyed in 1882 (opens in a new tab), Trübner & Co. for the Archaeological Survey of Southern India, 1887, pp. 110-111, Pl. LXII-LXIII. [Public domain]
John Marshall (ed.), Annual Report of the Archaeological Survey of India, 1926-27 (opens in a new tab), Government of India, Central Publication Branch, Calcutta, 1930, pp. 156-157. M. Hamid Kuraishi, trial excavations at Nagarjunikonda, 1926-27. [Public domain]
D. C. Sircar and B. Ch. Chhabra (eds.), Epigraphia Indica, Vol. XXXII (1957–58) (opens in a new tab), Archaeological Survey of India, 1959, pp. 82, 88-89. D. C. Sircar, Two Inscriptions from Guntur District (Manchikallu). [Public domain in India]