Historical Geography of Ancient India c5.s6.38

c5.s6.38

Mr. S. V. Veṅkaṭeśwara makes Satiyaputa, mentioned in the second Rock-Edict of Aśoka, equivalent to Satyavrata-Kṣetra, the ceremonial designation of Kāñci or Conjeevaram (1918). S. Krishnaswami Aiyangar refutes the above identification, and concludes that ‘these Satiyaputras were a Western people, and have to be looked for between the Keralas and the Rāṣṭrikas along the Western hills, and that it is likely that the Satpute are their modern representatives. If so, could it not be the collective name of the various matriarchal communities like the Tulus and the Nayars of the Malabar and Kanara districts of today?’ (1919).