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King Aśoka conquered Kaliṅga and annexed it to his empire. The same monarch in his edict (XIII) refers to the Cholas, Pāṇḍyas, and Keralaputras as his *pāchantas* or neighbours. It is evident from this edict of king Aśoka that the three South Indian powers—the Cholas, Pāṇḍyas and Keralaputras—were, till the third century B. C., quite independent of Magadha. But presumably the friendly relation, which had existed between king Aśoka and those three powers, opened for the first time the road of an exchange or amalgamation of two distinct civilizations, namely, the Aryan and the Dravidian. It is also not inconceivable that in or before the third century B.C., Andhra or Telugu country was in part Aryanised.