| Summary: | A number of factors were responsible in the evolution of the first
state craft in deccan locale. There were bound to be, several regional power centers
beyond the main arena of Satvahna power. Their negotiation, complementing and
supplementing each others need as well as with limited autonomy, enjoying their
peripheral important status. Kanheri caves, specially the epigraphic evidences during
Satvahna times, could be the best marker of variety of power specificities within
deccan. These inscriptions made references to casts, gotras, communities, gahapaties as
well as garini and kutumbini etc. These were all local social cultural forces were
playing imperative roles in the larger eco-political ambiance of deccan. It's a kind of
multidimensional relationship of mainstream political and cultural process, specially
seprated to ecological setting. Surprisingly from these plaethora of inscriptions guilds
and Satvahna royal house hold didn't carve out their space. Kanheri caves laid
phenomenal role in trade and cultural interactions. The present paper as an attempt to
explore socio cultural role of Kanheri caves in these interactions.
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