Early India and Pakistan to Ashoka c8.57

c8.57

But south of the great plains, in a belt of central India which includes the Narbadā and the upper Godāvarī and extends roughly from Ujjain in the north to the borders of Mysore in the south, a number of town-sites have been dug into in recent years, and a consistent cultural sequence is beginning to appear. Of the full meaning of this sequence little can be said until vertical probing has been followed in its proper sequence by large-scale lateral clearance. For the time being we have to content ourselves with a mosaic of fragmentary indications.