The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c18.175

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² According to Mr. Rice, ‘an inscription of the twelfth century, at Bandanikke, Shikarpur taluk, Mysore, describes Kuntala as the province governed by the Mauryas. This, roughly speaking, would be the country between the rivers Bhima and Vedavati, bounded on the west by the Ghats, including Shimoga, Chitaldroog, Bellary, Dharwar, Bijapur, and adjacent parts to the north in Bombay and the Nizam's Dominions’ (*Mysore Gaz.* (1897), i, 289).