People
Andre Indi
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Andre Indi, the Indians of Andhra, marks a people in India, and the name is very probably a Latin echo of Āndhra, the Indian name for the realm of the Śātavāhana dynasty. Rising from the western Deccan, these kings came to dominate northern India from about 28 BC, after the collapse of the Magadha empire. The Roman writer Pliny calls them a powerful people with many villages and thirty towns fortified with walls and towers, whose king could field a hundred thousand foot soldiers, two thousand horsemen and a thousand elephants. Their wealth rested on sea trade, and their coins show ships. The map preserves them at the height of their power, with no trace of their decline in the third century.