Indian Epigraphy c14.10

c14.10

The above facts suggest that the responsibility for the spread of Indian culture to the lands beyond the Bay of Bengal cannot be assigned exclusively to the Pallava dominions on the Coromandel Coast. As a matter of fact, the peoples of various parts of India, especially of the coastal regions—both eastern and western, contributed to the spread, the contributions of the Coromandel Coast being only a part of the whole and those of the western areas of the Deccan as also of East India being quite considerable.