The Early History of the Deccan (Parts I–XI) v1.c6.s8.12

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Suvarṇagiri, the seat of the southern viceroyalty of the Maurya empire in the days of Aśoka, has not yet been satisfactorily located. Hultzsch proposed to identify it with Kanakagiri in the Hyderabad State, south of Maski, and north of the ruins of Vijayanagara. The present writer suggested identification with Songir in the Khāndesh. It may be remembered that a stone inscription referring to the Maurya family who ruled in a part of the Khāndesh down to the eleventh century A.D., was discovered at Vāghlī, six miles north-east of Chālisgāon in the Khāndesh.