Andhra In Indian Epic Literature - Wikipedia

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Andhra (Telugu: ఆంధ్ర) in Indian epic literature was a kingdom mentioned in the epic Mahabharata. It was a southern kingdom. Andhra and Kalinga are often used interchangeably. Andhras are sub-tribes of Andhra satavahanas. The stateAndhra Pradesh got its name from this kingdom.

Andhra Tribes are also mentioned in the Vayu and Matsya Purana. In the Mahabharata the infantry of Satyaki was composed of a tribe called Andhras, known for their long hair,tall stature, sweet language, and mighty prowess. They lived along the banks of the Godavari river. Andhras and Kalingas supported the Kauravas during the Mahabharata war. Sahadeva defeated the kingdoms of Pandya, Andhra, Kalinga, Dravida, Odra and Chera while performing the Rajasuya yajna. Buddhist references to Andhras are also found.^{[1] [2] [3]}

The Andhras trace their history to the vedic age. Andhra was mentioned in the Sanskrit epics such as Aitareya Brahmana(800 BCE). According to Aitareya Brahmana of the Rig veda, Andhras left the North India and migrated to South India.^[4][5][6]The Andhras were nomads for several centuries. Some tribes migrated and others did not and remained in their older settlements. the Andhra tribes crossed the Vindhya mountains, reached the south, and merged with the other Andhra tribes.They are mentioned at the time of the death of the great Mauryan King Ashoka in 232 BC. This date has been considered to be the beginning of the Andhra historical record. Various dynasties have ruled the area, including the Andhra (or Satavahana), Ikshvakus, Eastern Chalukyas, the Kakatiyas, the Vijayanagar Kingdom

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Found this while searching for the meaning of both Andhra and Telangana. There's a lot more in wikipedia about Andhra's

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Nice

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Ramayanam lo kooda undi Andhra ani..

seetamma ramudu lakshamanudu paranashala godavari  :)

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Now the below article is about Telangana, after reading this I was confused if there's a real/any difference between Andhra and Telangana

 

 

The meaning and evolution of the word Telangana

 

By Mohammed Ayub Khan

 

The meaning and origin of the word ‘Telangana’ is subjected to much scholarly dispute. However, there is near consensus that the term (Telangana) was first used by Muslim chronicles of late 14^th century.  We find the particular use of the term only after the emergence of the powerful prime minister Khan-e-Jahan Malik Maqbul Telangani. Earlier, we find the use of several variations of the term.   As Prof. Raychaudhuri writes. “Students are apt to be bewildered not only by the use of alternative names Adnhras and Trilinga but also by the numerous variants of the expressions Trilinga itself.”

 

We find a comprehensive overview of the evolution of the term in Prof. Hemchandra Raychaudhuri’s paper “Geography of the Deccan” published in the Dr. Ghulam Yazdani edited “The Early History of the Deccan.”(Oxford University Press, 1960)  The relevant sections are being reproduced here so as to keep things in proper perspective:

The Saktisangama Tantra draws a distinction between the Andhra country and another land which it calls Tailanga-desa. The last mentioned territory is placed between Srisailam and the Chola country. But the distinction is not always maintained. The name Trilinga, a variant of Tailanga, is traditionally derived from three shrines (lingas), namely at Kalesvaram, Srisailam, and Draksharama, all of which are located within the territory defined above as the Andhra country. The suggestion that Trilinga is a contraction of Trikalinga is opposed to the evidence of the Puranas, which clearly draw a distinction between Kalinga, in the south-east of India, and Tilanga, which is included among the janapadas of the south. Muslim writers represent as the capital Tilang or Telingana the city of Warangal, the very place which together with the neighbouring city of Hanamkonda, is placed in the Andhra country by Indian literature and epigraphs. The boundaries of Tilinga-desa are given in the Srirangam plates of the fourteenth century A.D. as being Maharashtra on the west, Kalinga (parts of Orissa and the Vizagapatnam district) on the east, Pandya on the south, and Kanyakubja in the north. Pandya of this passage evidently refers to the Pandyas of Nolambavadi (capital Uchchangu),i.e.the Shitaldroog-Bellary area. As to Kanyakubja, the Nagod stone inscription suggests that it was the name of a desa (country) as well as that of a city, and that ‘Kanyakabuja-desa’ extended southwards to Central India. The Ain-e-Akbari seems to make the northern boundary of Telingana coterminous within the southern frontier of Berar. In the days of the Kakatiya king Rudra (A.D.1163), the Andhra-Trilingana country country over which he ruled was bounded on the east by the sea, on the south by Srisaila, on the west by the negiborhood of Kataka (either Kalyanakataka, i.e.Kalyani, or Mannaikadagam, i.e. Malkhed), and on the north by the slopes of Mount Malyavanta.  This Malyavanta obviously cannot be identified either with the homonymous range near Kishkindha mentioned in the Ramayana and Ramopakhyana, or with the hill bearing the same name in the far north mentioned in the Mahabharatha and the Puranas. It may have refrence to the fortified hill of Mallangad in the Karimnagar (Yelgandal) district of the Hyderabad state. That Rudra’s realm was called Tilanga (one of the many variants of Trilinga) is clear from the Vratakhanda of Hemadri. The name Andhra is applied to the same country when Hemadri refers to Queen Rudramma or Rudramba, daughter of Rudra’s nephew and successor Ganapati. In an inscription of the sixteenth century the  two names of the kingdom are combined in the expression Andhra-Trilinga madhyama country. ..                The earliest form of the name is perhaps Trilinga, corresponding to the Trillingon of Ptolemy and Tirilinga of the Purle plates of the Ganga king Idravarman. The form Tilanga is found in the Puranas and Tilinga in the Srirangam plates of the Saka year 1280 (A.D.1358). A Kurgod inscription of the latter part of the twelfth century A.D. has the form Telumga. Hemadri uses the names Tillanga and Tailanga. The Saktisangam Tantra refers to Tailanga desa. Amir Khusrav has Tilang and Abul Fazl Telingana.” (pp.28-29)

 

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I know it's very lengthy, but for members who are interested to read....

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telanagana-- telugu matlade vallu unde place in NiZAM state, just like marata and kananda in the state,it was used to distinguish.. I  think that's it..