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Krishna.1 Yuan Chwang applies the name An-to-lo (Andhra) to the district round Ping-ki-lo (Vengīpura) near Ellore. In later times the Andhra-Khanda extended from the Godavari to the borders of Kalinga (arabhya Gautamanaditaṭam aKalingam) and included Piṭhāpuri (Pithapuram)2.
The Savaras and the Pulindas are described in the Matsya and the Vayu Purānas as Dakshina-patha-vasinaḥ, inhabitants of the Deccan, together with the Vaidarbhas and the Dandakas :
Tesham pare janapada Dakshina-patha-vasinah
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Kārūshūscha saha-Ishika Aṭavyaḥ Savaras tatha
Pulinda Vindhya-Pushika (?) Vaidarbha Dandakaiḥ saha.3 Abhiraḥ saha cha-Ishikaḥ Aṭavyaḥ śavarascha ye Pulinda Vindhya-Mulika Vaidarbha Dandakaiḥ saha.*
The Mahabharata also places the Andhras, Pulindas and Savaras in the Deccan :
Dakshina-patha-janmanaḥ sarve naravarr-Andhrakaḥ Guhah Pulindaḥ śavarās Chuchukā Madrakai! (?) saha 5
The precise position and extent of the country of the Savaras in the Brahmana period cannot be shown. They are usually identified with the Suari of Pliny and the Sabarae of Ptolemy, and are probably represented by the
1 Hultzsch (Ep. Ind. VI. 85) identified the city with Amaravati, Burgess suggested Dharanikota which lies about 18 miles to the westward from Bezväḍa, on the right bank of the Krishna. Fergusson, Sewell and Watters prefer Bezvāḍa itself (Yuan Chwang, II. 216). In the days of the great Chinese pilgrim An-to-lo (Andhra) had its capital at Ping-ki-lo or Vengipura in the Krishņā district.
2 Watters; II. IA. xx; 93; Ep. Ind. IV. 357.
3 Matsya. 114. 46-48.
4 Vayu, 45. 126.
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Mbh., XII. 207. 42.
