The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c23.60

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¹ I cannot agree with Prof. Bhandarkar that the Satiyaputra kingdom should be placed in the Ghāts near Poona. S. V. Venkatesvara suggests (*J. R. A. S.*, 1918, p. 54 and *Ind. Ant.*, xlviii, p. 24) that Kānchi may be meant, because (1) Patanjali enumerates Pāndya, Chola, Chera, and Kānchipura; (2) Kānchi is known to Brahmans as Satyavrata-kshetra; and (3) Satyavrata, the Manu, was considered lord of Dravida. This evidence is far from conclusive. In the seventeenth century there was a province called Satyamangalam in the Nāyak kingdom of Madura (*Ind. Ant.*, xlv, p. 200). It is possible that that may have been meant by Asoka. For the present I prefer my identification. A fortified pass of importance, leading from Mysore to Coimbatore, was known by the name of Satyamangalam [Satti mungalum] (Swartz, *Memoirs*, i, 367). See V. A. Smith, *Asoka*, 3rd ed., p. 161.