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The Ravi was known as Purushni [4] [5] or Irawati to Indians in Vedic times and as Hydraotes (Ancient Greek: 'ϒδραώτης) [6] [7] and Hyarotis (Ὑαρῶτις) [8] to the Ancient Greeks. Part of the Battle of the Ten Kings was fought on a river, which according to Yaska (Nirukta 9.26) refers to the Ravi river at Punjab .
The history of southern India covers a span of over four thousand years during which the region saw the rise and fall of a number of dynasties and empires. Location of South India The period of known history of southern India begins with the Iron Age (c. 1200 BCE–200 BCE), Sangam period (c. 600 BCE–300 CE) and Medieval southern India until ...
A history of South India from prehistoric times to the fall of Vijayanagar. New Delhi: Indian Branch, Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-560686-8. Sen, Sailendra Nath (1999). Ancient Indian History and Civilization. New Age Publishers. ISBN 81-224-1198-3. Thapar, Romila (2003) [2003]. The Penguin History of Early India. New Delhi: Penguin Books.
[1] [2] F. E. Pargiter has equated the ancient Ikshvakus with the Dravidians. [3] Later texts, such as the Ramayana and the Puranas, connect the dynasty of Ikshvaku's descendants to Ayodhya, the capital of the Kosala Kingdom in northern India. [4] A record of the Vijayapuri king Ehuvala Chamtamula traces his ancestry to the legendary Ikshvakus. [5]
An ancient route, from the harbours in Kerala (such as Muchiri or Thondi) through the Palghat Gap to Karur in interior Tamil Nadu can be traced with the help of archaeological evidence. [ 23 ] Historians have yet to precisely locate Muziris, known in Tamil as "Muchiri", a base of the Chera rulers.
The Early Pandyas of the Sangam period were one of the three main kingdoms of the Tamilakam (southern India), the other two being the Cholas, and Cheras dynasty. As with many other kingdoms around this period (earlier than 200 BCE), most of the information about the Early Pandyas come to modern historians mainly through literary sources and some epigraphic, archaeological and numismatic evidence.
The Chandelas were originally vassals of the Gurjara-Pratiharas. [14] Nannuka (r.c. 831 –845 CE), the founder of the dynasty, was the ruler of a small kingdom centered around Khajuraho.
The study of the history of the early Rashtrakutas and the Rashtrakutas of Manyakheta has been made possible by the availability of numerous inscriptions spread all over the Deccan, ancient literature in Pali, [1] contemporaneous Kannada literature such as Kavirajamarga (850) and Vikramarjuna Vijaya (941), Sanskrit writings by Somadeva, Rajashekara, Gunabhadra, Jinasena and others and the ...