Early India and Pakistan to Ashoka c8.52

c8.52

Seemingly about the same time at Jaugaḍā, district Ganjām, beside the Rishikulyā river in southern Orissa, a developed Iron Age culture and an earthen rampart twenty-five feet high were imposed upon a site previously occupied by villagers who had used stone axes of oblong section and, apparently, Black-and-red Ware (p. 161).⁷⁰ Here the association of the new work with Ashoka is perhaps encouraged by the presence of his fourteen rock-edicts in the immediate vicinity.