Age of the Nandas and Mauryas c11.s37.23

c11.s37.23

² Smith's latest surmise on Satiyaputa viz., that ‘in all probability it is represented by the Satyamangalam Taluk or sub-division of the Coimbatore district’, and the reasons urged by him in favour of it (*Aśoka* 3 p. 161) can hardly be accepted. D. R. Bhandarkar's reference to the current Maratha surname Sātpute sounds more convincing, but Aśoka's Satiyaputa was a kingdom definitely somewhere in South India, and so far as I can see nowhere in Mahārāṣṭra. Cf. Hultzsch p. 3 n. 7 See also ‘South India and Ceylon’ post.