Political History of Ancient India, from the Accession of Parikshit to the Extinction of the Gupta Dynasty c14.s3.57
Political History of Ancient India, from the Accession of Parikshit to the Extinction of the Gupta Dynasty c14.s3.57
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¹ A clue to the location of this city is probably given by the inscriptions of the later Mauryas of the Koṅkaṇ and Khāndesh, apparently the descendants of the Southern Viceroy (*Ep. Ind.*, III. 136). As these later Maurya inscriptions have been found at Vāda in the north of the Thāṇa district (*Bomb. Gaz.*, Vol. I, Part II, p. 14) and at Wāghlī in Khāndesh (*ibid.*, 284), it is not unlikely that Suvarṇagiri was situated in that neighbourhood. Curiously enough, there is actually in Khāndesh a place called Songīr. According to Hultzsch, (*CII.* p. xxxviii) Suvarṇagiri is perhaps identical with Kanakagiri in the Hyderabad State, south of Maski, and north of the ruins of Vijayanagara. Isila may have been the ancient name of Siddāpura.