

Why is this region of Western MH labelled as 'Dandaka' in several Janapada era maps?
What's the reason?


What's the reason?
Original Prakrit Text:
अंगअणं पि ण सहअ पडिच्छअ
रोसभरा हसिअं ताए लड्ढुं ।
मुहकज्जलं वि लएण संठविअं
पुणो पुणो विअअरं पेक्खइ ताए ॥
उव्वलिए सरसिओअणमज्झे
सहिअए सअं सह संवुत्तं अज्ज ।
तं चित्तफलअं मणं च पिवं अ
कहं णु रुण्णं मुअएण तासु ॥
रअणीए रमणीअवेल्लए
सहिअए सइ णिव्वाणलद्धए ।
अणुहविअरसपरिभोगं
मणं मे पविसन्ति दाराए ॥
Transliteration :
Aṅgaaṇaṃ pi ṇa sahā paḍicchā
Rosabharā hasiaṃ tāe laḍḍhuṃ ।
Muhakajjalaṃ vi laeṇa saṃṭhaviaṃ
Puṇo puṇo viaaraṃ pekkhai tāe ॥
Uvvalie sarasiōaṇamajjhe
Sahiae saaṃ saha saṃvuttaṃ ajja ।
Taṃ cittaphalāa maṇaṃ ca pivaṃ a
Kahaṃ ṇu ruṇṇaṃ muaeṇa tāsu ॥
Raaṇīe ramaṇīāvellae
Sahiae sai nivvāānaladdhae ।
Aṇuhaviāarasaparibhogaṃ
Maṇaṃ me pavisanti dārāe ॥
English Translation:
Even the courtyard cannot bear to receive
Her laughter, filled with anger, as she sports.
The kohl from her face, wiped away with the corner of her garment,
She looks again and again at that scene.
In the full-blown lotus in the middle of the pond,
Today, with my beloved, we met together.
That heart-fruit and my heart drinking it -
How, indeed, can tears be held back by those women?
At night, in the beautiful pleasure grove,
With my beloved, who has obtained bliss,
The enjoyment of the savor of love's essence -
My heart enters into the state of giving.
They belonged to same breed
If anyone feels that I'm inciting hate, read abt 2002 riots and about Bombay Citizens Committee and Morarji Desai. Peace✌️
Context- The literal FIRST independant dynasty to rule over Karnataka was the Chutu dynasty. https://shastriyakannada.org/database/english/land%20history%20and%20people/CHUTU%20DYNASTY.htm?
Guess what??? Their court language itself was MAHARASHTRI PRAKRUT! https://ancientcoinsofindiaaruns.blogspot.com/2010/05/chutus-of-banavasi-30-bc-345-ad.html?
They even used titles like 'Satakarni' to denote themselves. https://globeinview.com/chutu-dynasty/?
There are mentions of people of Northern Karnataka called themselves as 'MAHARATHIS' as seen in Chitradurga, Chandravalli. https://www.reddit.com/r/IndianHistory/s/y5uh6sVaNN
Context- After the fall of Mauryas, who left their influence on Sri Lanka and Maldives, Maharashtri Prakrit, the Satavahana court's lingua franca reached Sri Lanka and Maldives via Konkan merchants and Buddhist monks from ports like Sopara. This left phonological imprints in Elu (proto-Sinhala)—e.g., /r/ > /l/ (Skt. rāja > lā), geminate stops—inherited into modern insular languages, distinct from eastern Magadhi Prakrit's traits. https://archive.roar.media/english/life/history/sri-lankas-megalithic-burial-grounds?
Today, all four Mahl, Sinhala, Marathi and Konkani are considered cousins (sometimes sisters) within the southern / Insular Indo‑Aryan family
https://www.hinduscriptures.in/today-s-bharat/languages/languages-of-lakshadweep?
I'm a Western Maharashtrian and Ik for a fact about how Punekars (not me) discriminate against all other Vidarbhans and how greedy politician are looting resources.
Context-
Seige of Berar (1574) was a peak of rivalry between Ahmednagar and the Berar Sultanate. Ahmednagar was founded by a Marathi Brahmin from Marathwada whereas the Brrar was found by a Kanarese Hindu captured from Vijaynagara.
Us Marathis SERIOUSLY need to read our ancient history otherwise other will continue leech onto our empires forever!
Ik ya'lll won't like me posting this over here but then the problem arises, where should I post abt it? Because now I have understood that their literall objective whenever it comes to Maharashtra or Maharashtri is to somehow prove that it was just a elitist language and that Maharashtra spoke that Agge bugge language called Kannad.
Take a look at the first photo that photo uses an outdated, disproved theory. In second image, I told that Maharashtri emerged naturally not just due to elitist touch. They removed asking me to add sources. When I did, they again remove it calling my sources biased. Like come on. I agree that Kannadas live in denial but this much?
Context- Maharashtri was the most prestigious languages of the world of that era. Many grammarian such as Vararuchi and Dandin have praised this language as well.
Hemachandra a Jain monk in the Solanki (Chalukya) court of Gujarat in his Prākṛtavyākaraṇa Siddha‑Hema Śabdānuśāsana Hemacandra treats Mahārāṣṭrī as the base dialect and then introduces Śaurasenī as a modification of Mahārāṣṭrī. He explicitly states that Śaurasenī is a modification or derivative of Mahārāṣṭrī, and then He then goes on to say that Māgadhī, Paiśācī, and Apabhraṁśa are “like Śaurasenī,” i.e., they are derived from the same Mahārāṣṭrī‑based system, which is why secondary literature often says Hemacandra treats the others as “variations or off‑shots of Mahārāṣṭrī.”. https://jaingpt.org/knowledge/prakrit\_vyakaranam\_010651\_010651?