{"id":10862,"date":"2023-05-14T01:38:43","date_gmt":"2023-05-13T20:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=10862"},"modified":"2025-03-29T23:07:57","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T17:37:57","slug":"satavahana-dynasty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/satavahana-dynasty\/","title":{"rendered":"Satavahana Dynasty"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Satavahana Dynasty:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The Satavahanas, <strong>also referred to as the Andhras<\/strong> in the Puranas, were an <strong>ancient<\/strong> <strong>Indian dynasty based in the Deccan region<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Most modern scholars believe that the Satavahana rule <strong>began in the late second century BCE <\/strong>and lasted <strong>until the early third century CE.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>They ruled <strong>from Pune in Maharashtra to Coastal Andhra Pradesh<\/strong>. At its greatest extent, the Satavahana empire <strong>covered the whole of the Deccan<\/strong> and <strong>spread far into Northern India<\/strong>, perhaps even as far as Magadha.<\/li>\n<li>They played the most significant role in Indian history <strong>in the period between the fall of the Mauryas and the rise of the Gupta Empire.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Origin<\/strong>:\n<ul>\n<li>Satavahana Dynasty was established <strong>in the 1st century BC<\/strong> <strong>in the western Deccan Plateau.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Satavahana Rulers had emerged from the Andhra region<\/strong> or the delta areas of the Krishna River and Godavari River.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The dynasty was <strong>built upon the ruins of the Maurya Empire.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rulers of the Satavahana Dynasty:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Simuka was the <strong>founder<\/strong> of the Satavahana Dynasty, and he is believed to have <strong>destroyed the Sunga Power<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>dynasty reached its zenith under the rule of Gautamiputra Satakarni<\/strong> and <strong>his successor Vasisthiputra Pulamavi<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Gautamiputra Satakarni<\/strong> <strong>received wide recognition<\/strong> because of <strong>his policy of military expansion.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Satakarni <strong>carried on expansion through the entire country<\/strong> and became famous during that era as a king of great power and valour.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Capital<\/strong>: The dynasty had <strong>different capital cities<\/strong> at different times, <strong>including Pratishthana (Paithan) and Amaravati (Dharanikota<\/strong>).<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Decline of the Satavahana Dynasty:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Till the end of the 2nd century, the <strong>Satavahana dynasty expanded from western India to the Krishna delta<\/strong> and northern Tamil Nadu , but this expansion <strong>did not continue for long.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The Satavahanas Dynasty <strong>collapsed when Abhiras seized Maharashtra,<\/strong> <strong>and Ikshwakus and Pallavas appropriated the eastern province<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Their <strong>greatest competitors were the Sakas,<\/strong> who had established their power in upper Deccan and Western India.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>kingdom had fragmented into smaller states<\/strong> by the <strong>early 3rd century CE.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Administration<\/strong>:\n<ul>\n<li>The Satavahana <strong>polity was extensively decentralized<\/strong>, as <strong>local administration <\/strong>was <strong>left largely to feudatories<\/strong> subject to the general control of royal officials.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>king was at the apex of the administrative hierarchy<\/strong> and was considered the <strong>guardian of the established social<\/strong> <strong>order<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Though the <strong>royal power<\/strong> was absolute, it <strong>was subject to religious dictates<\/strong> &amp; <strong>public opinion<\/strong>. <strong>The king had to rule in accordance<\/strong> with the <strong>rules laid down in the Dharmashastras.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The <strong>ruler appointed several ministers &amp; executive officers<\/strong> to assist him in administration. The officers in the king\u2019s ministry were called <strong>Raj-amateurs.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Religion and Culture:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>The Satavahanas were <strong>followers of Hinduism and patronised Maharashtri Prakrit literature.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>They were <strong>influenced by the sacrificial tradition of the Vedic religion<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The Satavahana rulers <strong>gave liberal patronage to Buddhism<\/strong> as well. Gautamiputra Satakarni, Pulumavi, Yajna Satakarni &amp; some other kings financed the excavation of caves, stupas, chaityas &amp; viharas in the Deccan.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>They were the <strong>first Indian kings to give royal grants of land<\/strong> to those practising <strong>Buddhism and Brahmanism.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Other practices:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>The most intriguing practice instituted by the Satavahanas was that of <strong>metronymics,<\/strong> i.e., the <strong>name of emperors was often derived from the female lineage.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The Satavahanas were <strong>early issuers of Indian state coinage struck with images of their rulers.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1)\u00a0What is Prakrit literature?\u00a0\u00a0<\/h3>\n<p>Prakrit is the foremost indigenous phrase of the Indo- Aryan language representing &#8220;vernacular&#8221;. Prakrit emerged in the 6th century as the literary language, generally patronised by the Kshatriya king in ancient India. The earliest extant model of Prakrit is the Ashokan inscription.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.indianarrative.com\/culture-news\/treasure-trove-of-1st-century-bc-artefacts-found-in-telangana-village-142743.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Treasure trove of 1st Century BC artefacts found in Telangana village<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Satavahanas, also referred to as the Andhras in the Puranas, were an ancient Indian dynasty based in the Deccan region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":10863,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10862","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}