The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c21.56

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³ I cannot agree with Fleet (*J. R. A. S.*, 1909, p. 997 n.) that Minor Rock Edict II, of which three texts exist in N. Mysore, was addressed to a foreign power. Rock Edict II clearly states that the neighbouring or frontier states included the Cholas, Pāndyas, Keralaputra, and Satiyaputra. R. G. Bhandarkar (*Indian Review*, June, 1909) would place the Satiyaputra state near Poona, because families of several castes in the Poona district still bear the name Sātpute. But the edict groups the Satiyaputras with the Tamil powers, and I hold that their country may be identified with the Satyamangalam sub-division of the Coimbatore District and some adjoining territory (see note on p. 194, *post*). I still believe that the Maurya empire, including both territories directly administered and regions attached only by an ill-defined protectorate, extended to the south until it impinged on the frontiers of the ancient, well-established Tamil kingdoms.