aṃdhraḥ (pl.) 1 N. of a people and the country inhabited by them. [The country of the Andhras is said to be the modern Telangaṇa. But the limits were probably confined to the Ghats on the west and the rivers Godāvarī and Kṛṣṇa on the north and south. It bordered on Kaliṅga (See Dk. 7th Ullāsa), and its capital Andhranagara is probably the old town of Veṅgi or Vegi. According to Daṇḍin, there was near it a lake ‘like the ocean and crested with cranes’ which description can only refer to the lake Colair which has an area of over 150 miles; jagannāthādūrdhvabhāgādarvākśrībhramarātmakāt . tāvadaṃdhrābhidho deśaḥ]. 2 N. of a dynasty of kings. 3 A man of a mixed (low) caste, being born of a Vaideha father and Kārāvara mother, who lives by killing game; Ms. 10. 36. 4 A kind of fowler. Comp.—jātiḥ the Andhra tribe. —bhṛtyāḥ N. of a dynasty of kings.