[1][2] In Gautama Buddha's time, many of the Assakas were located on the banks of the Godavari River (south of the Vindhya mountains).

[4] The capital of Aśmaka was the city variously named Podana, Potali, Paudanyapura, and Potana, which corresponds to modern-day Bodhan in Telangana.

[4] The Aśmaka kingdom already existed at the time of the Brāhmaṇas, when its king Brahmadatta was mentioned in the Mahāgovinda Suttanta as a contemporary of Reṇu of Videha and Dhataraṭṭha or Dhṛtarāṣṭra of Kāsī.

[7]: 127  According to Ajay Mitra Shastri, "Asika-nagara" was located in the present-day village of Adam in Nagpur district (on the Wainganga River).

One of the oldest works of the Pali-Buddhist literature, the Sutta-Nipata (verses 976-7) speak of a Brahman guru called Bavarl, as having left the Kosala country and settled near a village on the Godhavari in the Assaka territory in the Dakshinapatha.