Southernmost of the sixteen Mahajanapadas, a Deccan kingdom along the Godavari River in present Telangana/Maharashtra, capital at Potali/Podana, identified by most scholars with modern Bodhan.
Disappears from the historical record by the mid-1st millennium BC (Buddhist and Puranic sources place its end variously between 425 and 345 BC), absorbed by neighboring Avanti (already a dataset record) or successor Deccan polities.
The atlas holds 2 border frames for Asmaka (Assaka) — the shape you scrub through changes in 700 BC · 600 BC.
Covers Asmaka/Assaka as the southernmost of the sixteen Mahajanapadas.