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'''Telugu people''' ([[Telugu language|Telugu]]: తెలుగువాళ్లు, [[ISO 15919|Romanization:]] Teluguvāḷlu), also rendered as '''Telugus''', are one of the four major and the largest [[Dravidian peoples|Dravidian]] ethnolinguistic groups in terms of population native to the Indian states of [[Andhra Pradesh]], [[Telangana]] and [[Yanam district]] of [[Puducherry (union territory)|Puducherry]]. A significant amount of Telugus also reside in the surrounding Indian states of [[Karnataka]], [[Tamil Nadu]], [[Maharashtra]], [[Chhattisgarh]], [[Kerala]] and [[Odisha]], also in the [[union territory]] of [[Andaman and Nicobar Islands]]. The Telugus like some other [[South Asian ethnic groups|South Asians]], are largely descend from a varied mixture of Pre-Dravidian tribes, Dravidian and Indo-Aryan people. The earliest Telugu identity associated with are the [[Andhras]], a tribe from whom the Telugus inherit their [[ethnonym]] from, were known to have migrated from the banks of [[Yamuna|River Yamuna]] in the North to the banks of [[Krishna River|Krishna]] and [[Godavari River|Godavari]] in the South-East of the [[Indian subcontinent|Subcontinent]] right in the Telugu-heartland postulated to be of [[Indo-Aryan peoples|Indo-Aryan]] in speech and culture.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/ancientmedievalh0000ragh|title=Ancient and medieval history of Andhra Pradesh|work=P. Raghunadha Rao|publisher=Sterling Publishers, 1993|year=1993|isbn=9788120714953|page=iv|access-date=9 June 2014|url-access=registration}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|title=History of Andhra Pradesh|work=[[Government of Andhra Pradesh]]|agency=Associated Press|url=http://www.aponline.gov.in/quick%20links/hist-cult/history.html|url-status=dead|access-date=22 July 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120716182646/http://www.aponline.gov.in/quick%20links/hist-cult/history.html|archive-date=16 July 2012}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Sailendra Nath Sen|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Wk4_ICH_g1EC&pg=PA172|title=Ancient Indian History and Civilization|publisher=New Age International|year=1999|isbn=9788122411980|pages=172–176|access-date=29 January 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170323134904/https://books.google.com/books?id=Wk4_ICH_g1EC&pg=PA172|archive-date=23 March 2017|url-status=live}}</ref> | '''Telugu people''' ([[Telugu language|Telugu]]: తెలుగువాళ్లు, [[ISO 15919|Romanization:]] Teluguvāḷlu), also rendered as '''Telugus''', are one of the four major and the largest [[Dravidian peoples|Dravidian]] ethnolinguistic groups in terms of population native to the Indian states of [[Andhra Pradesh]], [[Telangana]] and [[Yanam district]] of [[Puducherry (union territory)|Puducherry]]. A significant amount of Telugus also reside in the surrounding Indian states of [[Karnataka]], [[Tamil Nadu]], [[Gujarat]], [[Maharashtra]], [[Chhattisgarh]], [[Kerala]] and [[Odisha]], also in the [[union territory]] of [[Andaman and Nicobar Islands]]. The Telugus like some other [[South Asian ethnic groups|South Asians]], are largely descend from a varied mixture of Pre-Dravidian tribes, Dravidian and Indo-Aryan people. The earliest Telugu identity associated with are the [[Andhras]], a tribe from whom the Telugus inherit their [[ethnonym]] from, were known to have migrated from the banks of [[Yamuna|River Yamuna]] in the North to the banks of [[Krishna River|Krishna]] and [[Godavari River|Godavari]] in the South-East of the [[Indian subcontinent|Subcontinent]] right in the Telugu-heartland postulated to be of [[Indo-Aryan peoples|Indo-Aryan]] in speech and culture.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/ancientmedievalh0000ragh|title=Ancient and medieval history of Andhra Pradesh|work=P. Raghunadha Rao|publisher=Sterling Publishers, 1993|year=1993|isbn=9788120714953|page=iv|access-date=9 June 2014|url-access=registration}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|title=History of Andhra Pradesh|work=[[Government of Andhra Pradesh]]|agency=Associated Press|url=http://www.aponline.gov.in/quick%20links/hist-cult/history.html|url-status=dead|access-date=22 July 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120716182646/http://www.aponline.gov.in/quick%20links/hist-cult/history.html|archive-date=16 July 2012}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Sailendra Nath Sen|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Wk4_ICH_g1EC&pg=PA172|title=Ancient Indian History and Civilization|publisher=New Age International|year=1999|isbn=9788122411980|pages=172–176|access-date=29 January 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170323134904/https://books.google.com/books?id=Wk4_ICH_g1EC&pg=PA172|archive-date=23 March 2017|url-status=live}}</ref> | ||
During the boon of [[Āstika and nāstika|Nastika]] Schools of [[Buddhism]] and [[Jainism]] in the region, Telugus along with most of India saw reformation of its traditional high society. It is supposed among here where the embryogenesis of [[Mahayana|Mahayana Buddhism]] sprung from, which would later go on to become the largest [[Schools of Buddhism|Buddhist tradition]] in the World.<ref>Guang Xing. ''The Concept of the Buddha: Its Evolution from Early Buddhism to the Trikaya Theory.'' 2004. pp. 65–66 "Several scholars have suggested that the Prajñāpāramitā probably developed among the Mahasamghikas in Southern India, in the Andhra country, on the Krishna River."</ref><ref>Williams, Paul. ''Mahayana Buddhism: The Doctrinal Foundations 2nd edition.'' Routledge, 2009, p. 47.</ref><ref>Drewes, David, ''Early Indian Mahayana Buddhism I: Recent Scholarship'', Religion Compass 4/2 (2010): 55–65, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-8171.2009.00195.x</ref><ref>"The south (of India) was then vigorously creative in producing Mahayana Sutras" – Warder, A.K. (3rd edn. 1999). ''Indian Buddhism'': p. 335.</ref> | During the boon of [[Āstika and nāstika|Nastika]] Schools of [[Buddhism]] and [[Jainism]] in the region, Telugus along with most of India saw reformation of its traditional high society. It is supposed among here where the embryogenesis of [[Mahayana|Mahayana Buddhism]] sprung from, which would later go on to become the largest [[Schools of Buddhism|Buddhist tradition]] in the World.<ref>Guang Xing. ''The Concept of the Buddha: Its Evolution from Early Buddhism to the Trikaya Theory.'' 2004. pp. 65–66 "Several scholars have suggested that the Prajñāpāramitā probably developed among the Mahasamghikas in Southern India, in the Andhra country, on the Krishna River."</ref><ref>Williams, Paul. ''Mahayana Buddhism: The Doctrinal Foundations 2nd edition.'' Routledge, 2009, p. 47.</ref><ref>Drewes, David, ''Early Indian Mahayana Buddhism I: Recent Scholarship'', Religion Compass 4/2 (2010): 55–65, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-8171.2009.00195.x</ref><ref>"The south (of India) was then vigorously creative in producing Mahayana Sutras" – Warder, A.K. (3rd edn. 1999). ''Indian Buddhism'': p. 335.</ref> | ||