Andhra Pradesh
Andhra Pradesh. A state on the east coast of southern India. It is the seventh-largest state and the tenth-most populous in the country.
Nagarjuna, one of the most important Mahayana philosophers, lived in this region. His writings, along with those of his disciple Āryadeva, are the foundational texts of the Madhyamaka school of Mahayana Buddhism.
When Aryadeva became a disciple of Nagarjuna, he accompanied Nagarjuna to the Buddhist monastic university at Nagarjunakonda (in Andhra Pradesh), now underwater. There, he studied with Nagarjuna and received tantric training, studying and meditating.[1]
There are also a number of other Buddhist monuments in the region, such as the Amaravati Stupa, the rock-cut caves at Bojjannakonda, and so on.
One of the earliest examples of the Brāhmī script, from Bhattiprolu was used on an urn containing the relics of Buddha.[2] This is considered as the rosetta stone for decipherment of Tamil Brahmi.[3] Kadamba script, derived from Bhattiprolu Brahmi later led to the evolution of Telugu and Kannada scripts.[4]
Archaeological evidence from places such as Bhattiprolu, Amaravathi, and Dharanikota suggests that the Andhra region was part of the Mauryan empire. After the death of Emperor Ashoka, Mauryan rule weakened around 200 BCE and was replaced by several smaller kingdoms in the Andhra region.[5]
Notes
- ↑ Aryadeva, Shambhala Publications
- ↑ "Ananda Buddha Vihara". Archived from the original on 14 October 2007. Retrieved 29 April 2024.
- ↑ Champahalakshmi, R. "A magnum opus on Tamil-Brahmi inscriptions". Frontline. The Hindu. Archived from the original on 30 December 2013. Retrieved 7 October 2011. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Alla, Chakradhar (1 June 2022). "Impact of writing tools in the evolution of Telugu script". In Chakrabarti, Debkumar. Ergonomics for design and innovation. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems. 391. Springer. p. 331. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-94277-9_29. ISBN 978-3-030-94276-2. Archived from the original on 13 May 2023. Retrieved 29 July 2024. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Akira Shimada (2012). Early Buddhist architecture in context: The great stupa at Amaravati (ca. 300 BCE – 300 CE). BRILL. pp. 33–40. ISBN 978-90-04-23283-9. Retrieved 14 October 2016.
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