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Early History of the Dekkan Down to the Mahomedan Conquest

1895

In modern times it is the name of the country between the Narmada on the north and a variable line along the course of the Krishna to the south exclusive of the provinces lying to the extreme east. [...] In the passage in the Ramayana referred to above 'the monkey-soldiers are directed to go to the countries of the Andhras (Telugu people) the Pandyas the Cholas and the Keralas in the south ; and are told that they will there see the gate of the city of the Pandyas adorned with gold and jewels. [...] by a curse the progeny of fifty of his sons to live on the borders" of the Aryan settlements and these it is said "were the Andhras Pup;has Sabaras Pulindas and 1VIAtibas and the descendants of Vigvamitra formed a large portion of the Dasyus."1 Of these the first four are spoken of as people living in the south the Pundras in the Ramayana and the other three in the Puranas.2 From the lat [...] The appearance of fragments of his inscriptions at Supara and on the confines of Mysor is to be accounted for by this fact or by the supposition that his dominions extended up to Supara on the western coast and along a strip in the centre of the peninsula to Mysor leaving the western countries of the Rastikas the Bhojas and Petenikas and the southern coast in a state of semi-independence. [...] On the history of the early centuries of the Christian era and the first century previous however the iscriptions in the cave-temples on the top of the Sahyadri throw a good deal of light.
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Introduction
i-xiv Ramkrishna Bhandarkar view
Section I. Etymology of the Word ”Dekkan” and its Denotation
1-3 Ramkrishna Bhandarkar view
Section II. Settlement of the Aryas in the Dukkan
4-9 Ramkrishna Bhandarkar view
Section III. Approximate Date of the Aryan Settlement in the Dekkan and Notices of Southern India in Ancient Indian Literature and Inscriptions
10-22 Ramkrishna Bhandarkar view
Section IV. Political History of the Derkan or Maharashtra — Analysis of the Historical Inscriptions in the Cave-Temples of Western India
23-38 Ramkrishna Bhandarkar view
Section V. Native and Foreign Princes Mentioned in the Inscriptions.—Identification of the Former with the Andhrabhrityas of the Puranas
39-41 Ramkrishna Bhandarkar view
Section VI. Chronology of the Andhrabhrityas or Satavahanas
42-63 Ramkrishna Bhandarkar view
Section VII. Political and Literary Traditions about the Satavahanas or Salivahanas
64-69 Ramkrishna Bhandarkar view
Section VIII. Religious Social and Economic Condition or Maharashtra Under the Andhrabhrityas or Satavahanas
70-76 Ramkrishna Bhandarkar view
Section IX. Probable History of the Period Between the Extinction of the Andhrabhrityas and the Rise of the Chalkukyas
77-81 Ramkrishna Bhandarkar view
Section X. The Early Chlukyas
82-105 Ramkrishna Bhandarkar view
Section XI. The Rashtrakutas
106-135 Ramkrishna Bhandarkar view
Section XII. The Later Chalukyas
136-159 Ramkrishna Bhandarkar view
Section XIII. The Kalachuris
160-169 Ramkrishna Bhandarkar view
Section XIV. The Yadavas of Devagiri. Early History of the Family
170-182 Ramkrishna Bhandarkar view
Section XV. The Yadavas of Devagiri. Later History
183-209 Ramkrishna Bhandarkar view
Section XVI. The Siliharas of Kolhapur
210-217 Ramkrishna Bhandarkar view
Appendix
218-248 Ramkrishna Bhandarkar view
Notes
249-256 Ramkrishna Bhandarkar view

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