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Telugu Historyతెలుగు చరిత్ర

The Rashtrakutas and the Telugu country

Era: Eastern Chalukyas & the Deccan powers

The Rashtrakutas and the Telugu countryGodavariKrishnaMalkhed (Manyakheta)Malkhed (Manyakheta)AlampurAlampurBodhanBodhanVengi (Pedavegi)Vengi (Pedavegi)KanchipuramKanchipuramKrishna–Musi confluence (camp of Govinda II, 770)Srisailam (the Srisaila country)Khajipet (inscription of Bhimarasa)Danavulapadu (verses of Indra III's general)Kambaduru (Nolamba pillar, 965)N0100 km
  • Unified Andhra Pradesh (pre-2014)
  • Present-day state borders, for orientation

Places in the Telugu country named in the records of the Rashtrakutas of Malkhed and their feudatories: the camp of the crown prince Govinda II at the confluence of the Krishna and the Musi (770), the Srisaila country of Dantidurga's Ellora inscription, the Rashtrakuta-period records at Alampur, Khajipet and Bodhan, Danavulapadu and Kambaduru in Rayalaseema, with the capital Malkhed to the west, the Eastern Chalukya capital Vengi to the east and Kanchi, taken by Krishna III, to the south.

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

Sources

  1. J. F. Fleet, R. G. Bhandarkar and others (Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency), Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency, Vol. I, Part II: History of the Konkan, Dakhan and Southern Maratha Country (opens in a new tab), Government Central Press, Bombay, 1896, pp. 389, 396, 403, 419. J. F. Fleet, Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts, chapter III. [Public domain]
  2. E. Hultzsch (ed.), Epigraphia Indica, Vol. VI (1900–01) (opens in a new tab), Government of India, Calcutta, 1901, pp. 209, 213. D. R. Bhandarkar, Alas plates of the Yuvaraja Govinda II. [Public domain]
  3. Dr. P. SREENIVASACHAR, M.A., Ph. D. (London) & Prof. P. B. DESAI, M.A., Andhra Pradesh Government Archaeological Series No. 3. KANNADA INSCRIPTIONS OF ANDHRA PRADESH (opens in a new tab), 1961, pp. 20, 25, 35. Paraphrased. [Public domain in India]
  4. C. F. Brackenbury, Madras District Gazetteers: Cuddapah, Vol. I (opens in a new tab), Government Press, Madras, 1915, pp. 29. [Public domain]
  5. V. Rangacharya, A Topographical List of the Inscriptions of the Madras Presidency (collected till 1915), with Notes and References, Vol. I (opens in a new tab), Government Press, Madras, 1919, pp. 20. [Public domain]