aṃdhraḥ

Dictionary meanings for aṃdhraḥ from Apte and Monier-Williams.

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aṃdhraḥ

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Apte Sanskrit-English Dictionary

(pl.) 1 N. of a people and the country inhabited by them. [The country of the Andhras is said to be the modern Telangaṇa. But the limits were probably confined to the Ghats on the west and the rivers Godā- varī and Kṛṣṇa on the north and south. It bordered on Kaliṅga (See Dk. 7th Ullāsa), and its capital Andhranagara is probably the old town of Veṅgi or Vegi. According to Daṇḍin, there was near it a lake ‘like the...

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