Nagarjunakonda

[[File:MET DT5217 (cropped).jpg|thumb|Drum panel depicting a stupa with the Buddha's descent from Trāyastriṃśa heaven, second half 3rd century.MET museum page] Nagarjunakonda: Nāgārjunikoṇḍa, meaning Nagarjuna Hill) is a historical town, now an island located near Nagarjuna Sagar in Palnadu district of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. It is one of India's richest Buddhist sites, and now lies almost entirely under the lake created by the Nagarjuna Sagar Dam. With the construction of the dam, the archaeological relics at Nagarjunakonda were submerged, and had to be excavated and transferred to higher land, which has become an island. The site was once the location of a large Buddhist monastic university complex, attracting students from as far as China, Gandhara, Bengal and Sri Lanka. There are ruins of several Mahayana Buddhist and Hindu shrines. It is 160 km west of another important historic site, the Amaravati Stupa. The sculptures found at Nagarjunakonda are now mostly removed to various museums in India and abroad. They represent the second most important group in the distinctive "Amaravati style", sometimes called "Later Andhra". There is also a palace area, with secular reliefs, that are very rare from such an early date, and show Roman influence. The modern name is after Nagarjuna, a southern Indian master of Mahayana Buddhism who lived in the 2nd century, who was once believed, probably wrongly, to have been responsible for the development of the site. The original name, used when the site was most active, was "Vijayapuri". This Nāgārjunakoṇḍa (sometimes Nāgārjunikoṇḍa) site in Andhra Pradesh is not to be confused with the Nāgārjuna (or Nāgārjuni) caves near the Barabar Caves in Bihar. Coins issued by the later Satavahana kings (including Gautamiputra Satakarni, Pulumavi, and Yajna Satakarni) have been discovered at Nagarjunakonda. An inscription of Gautamiputra Vijaya Satakarni, dated to his 6th regnal year, has also been discovered at the site, and proves that Buddhism had spread in the region by this time.

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Nagarjunakonda

Nagarjunakonda (« colline de Nagarjuna », en Télougou) (IAST : Nāgārjunakoṇḍa) est une ville historique du bouddhisme et de l'hindouisme. La vallée ayant été inondée afin de créer un réservoir, il ne reste aujourd'hui qu'une île située près de Nagarjuna Sagar, dans le district de Nalgonda, dans l'État d'Andhra Pradesh, en Inde. Elle se situe à au sud-est de la capitale de cet état, Hyderabad. Au début de notre ère, Nāgārjunakoṇḍa était un centre religieux, bouddhique et hindou, majeur.

Amaravati (capitale)

Amaravati (en télougou : అమరావతి) est la capitale de fait de l'Andhra Pradesh depuis octobre 2016. Elle est située sur la rive droite du fleuve Krishna, à proximité des villes de Guntur () et Vijayawada (). Il s'agit d'un projet de création d'une ville ex nihilo sur une superficie de . Amaravati, qui signifie « demeure des dieux », était le nom d'une petite ville qui fut la capitale des Satavahana entre les et Située au nord-ouest du site de la future capitale, elle est célèbre pour le style de ses sculptures.

Reddi Kingdom

The Reddi kingdom or Kondavidu Reddi kingdom (1325–1448 CE) was established in southern India by Prolaya Vema Reddi. Most of the region that was ruled by the Reddi dynasty is now part of modern-day coastal and central Andhra Pradesh. The Telugu term "Reddi", whose earlier forms were "Raddi", "Rattodi", and "Rattakudi", linked to the Sanskrit term "Rashtrakuta", was used for village headmen, who were responsible for organising the cultivation of the agricultural lands of the villages and collecting taxes.