A History of South India from Prehistoric Times to the Fall of Vijayanagar c12.15

c12.15

Archaeology confirms the evidence of literature. The numerous discoveries throughout South India of gold and silver coins of the Roman emperors of the first two centuries A.D. and the evidence recently unearthed of the presence of a ‘ Roman factory ’ in the neighbourhood of Pondicherry in the first century go far to confirm the correctness of the date suggested for the Śangam age.