Qualla: Paithan https://qualla.com/paithan en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:31 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Paithan https://qualla.com/paithan Paithan: Introduction https://qualla.com/paithan/ Roman senators debated the Paithani. Not by name, perhaps, but the extravagant silk textiles flowing from this Deccan trading town so drained Rome's treasury that the senate moved to restrict luxury imports from the East. That a small city on the banks of the Godavari River could trouble the economy of an empire half a world away tells you something about Paithan's reach. Known in antiquity as Pratishthana -- Sanskrit for "standing firmly" -- this was the capital from which the Satavahana dynasty governed nearly half of the Indian subcontinent between the 2nd century BCE and the 2nd century CE. Greek merchants knew it well enough to record it in the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea, one of the few inland Indian towns to earn that distinction.

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]]> Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/t/e/m/w/paithan-wp/temw-paithan-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Paithan: Capital of an Empire That Touched Three Seas https://qualla.com/paithan/ The Satavahanas called themselves "Trisamudratoyapitvahana" -- lords whose horses drank from three oceans. From Pratishthana, their first king Simuka built an empire that stretched across the Deccan and beyond. The city's strategic position on the Godavari made it a natural hub f...

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]]> Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/t/e/m/w/paithan-wp/temw-paithan-capital-of-an-empire-that-touched-three-seas.mp3 0:06 2 full Paithan: Where Saints Wrote in the People's Tongue https://qualla.com/paithan/ Paithan earned another epithet over the centuries: Santpura, the city of saints. The great Marathi poet-saint Eknath lived here in the 16th century, composing devotional works in plain Marathi rather than scholarly Sanskrit, helping to ignite the bhakti movement that would transf...

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]]> Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/t/e/m/w/paithan-wp/temw-paithan-silk-gold-and-the-looms-patience.mp3 0:06 4 full Paithan: A Crossroads of Three Faiths https://qualla.com/paithan/ Few Indian cities can claim to have been sacred ground for Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism simultaneously, but Paithan's history encompasses all three. The city's Jain heritage centers on an ancient Digambar temple housing a black sand idol of Munisuvratnath, the 20th Jain Tirtha...

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]]> Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/t/e/m/w/paithan-wp/temw-paithan-a-crossroads-of-three-faiths.mp3 0:06 5 full Paithan: The River and the Dam https://qualla.com/paithan/ The Godavari defines Paithan's geography as it has for millennia. But since the construction of the Jayakwadi Dam nearby, the relationship between city and river has gained a new dimension. The dam -- one of the largest earthen embankment dams in Asia, with 27 floodgates -- creat...

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