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Nagarjunakonda (ISO: Nāgārjunikoṇḍā, meaning Nagarjuna Hill) is a historical town, now an island located near Nagarjuna Sagar in Palnadu district of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It is one of India's richest Buddhist sites, and now lies almost entirely under the lake created by the Nagarjuna Sagar Dam .
Buddhist Remains in Andhra and the History of Andhra Between 225 and 610 A.D. Asian Educational Services. ISBN 978-81-206-0444-5. Kandavalli Balendu Sekaram (1973). The Andhras through the ages. Sri Saraswati. Kotra Raghunath (2001). The Ikṣvākus of Vijayapuri: a study of the Nagarjunakonda inscriptions. Eastern Book Linkers. ISBN 978-81 ...
The recorded history of Andhra Pradesh, one of the 28 states of 21st-century India, begins in the Vedic period. It is mentioned in Sanskrit epics such as the Aitareya Brahmana (800 BCE ). [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Its sixth-century BCE incarnation Assaka lay between the Godavari and Krishna Rivers , [ 4 ] one of sixteen mahajanapadas (700–300 BCE).
India in the first and second centuries CE was politically divided into various states, including the Kushan Empire and the Satavahana Kingdom.At this point in Buddhist history, the Buddhist community was already divided into various Buddhist schools and had spread throughout India.
2. Mounds adjacent to the hillock reddigudem, 3. Hill of Nagarjunakonda with the ancient remains Pullareddigudem (Agarharam) Palnadu: 1. The mounds with remains of ancient building between the hillock of Nagarjuna Konda and the village of Pullareddigudem, 2. Mounds adjacent to the hillock reddigudem, 3. Hill of Nagarjunakonda with the ancient ...
The construction of the dam submerged an ancient Buddhist settlement, Nagarjunakonda, which was the capital of the Ikshvaku dynasty in the 1st and 2nd centuries and the successors of the Satavahanas in the Eastern Deccan. Excavations yielded 30 Buddhist monasteries as well as artwork and inscriptions of historical importance.
The reign of Madhava Varma II (c. 440 – c. 460) was a golden age in the history of the Vishnukundinas. The Vishnukundina dynasty reached its greatest territorial extent under Madhava Varma II. He defeated Prithvishena II, the powerful ruler of Vakataka dynasty. Vakataka Mahadevi, the daughter of Prithvishena II, was given in marriage to him.
Jouveau-Dubreuil was the first discoverer of artifacts at Nagarjunakonda in Andhra Pradesh in 1926, before systematic digging was taken over by A. H. Longhurst in 1927. [3] He also excavated the Stupa at Goli, Andhra Pradesh in 1926. [4] He published both in French and English.