The Quarterly Journal of the Mythic Society. New Series.April 1952

Sukthankar concludes that the home-land of the S'atavahanas was the Bellary district mainly on the strength of the Myakadoni and the Hirahadagalli plates and that the land was called after the people (the province of S'atavahanas). [...] It is also necessary to stress the fact that S'rikakulam the capital of the ancient home of the Andhras had been washed away by the river Krishna and that epigraphic and other historical relics must have found their permanent resting place either in the bed of the river or at the bottom of the sea. [...] Indeed there is a strong and unbroken tradition in the Telugu-speaking area supported by literary evidence that the founder of the Andhra race settled down in the area round S'rikakulam and that he fought hard and vanquished the aboriginal tribes and settled down in the area round S'rikakulam." The memory of the wars of the original founder of the Andhra settlement with the native inhabitants i [...] There is literary evidence that the worship of the deity was conducted and that the temple was in sound condition in the sixteenth century but in the beginning of the eighteenth century the worship in the temple ceased and the temple fell into ruins. [...] Of these the important tracts or paliyapats in Mysore at the time may be mentioned as ni der: The Näyaks of Bednur iiasavApattifi and Chita.droog in the iron]) ; the Balam NTlyakas in the west ; in the centre the Nayaks of flagalvadi and the Gaudas of Yeiahanka and Ballapnr ; Suggattur Ganda on the east and on the South the Wodeyars of Mysore Kalale Ummatur Yelandur and others.