The recorded history of Andhra Pradesh can be traced to the period of the Assaka Maha-Janapada (700–300) BCE, [1] an ancient Indian kingdom located between the rivers of Godavari and Manjira in the present day a part of Andhra Pradesh, in southeastern India. Accounts of people in the region as descendants of Vishawamitra are littered in all versions of Ramayana, Mahabharata, Puranas and Jataka tales (Buddhist literature).