Historical Geography of Ancient India c7.572

c7.572

Suvarṇagiri.—As to the location of Suvarṇagiri mentioned in the Minor Rock Edict I of Aśoka (Brahmagiri text) we may have some hint from the inscriptions of the later Mauryas of Koṅkan and Khāndesh (*E.I.*, Vol. III, p. 136). Hultzsch identifies it with Kanakagiri in the Hyderabad State, south of Māski, and north of the ruins of Vijayanagara (*C.I.I.*, Vol. XXVIII). Bühler is inclined to look for it somewhere in the Western Ghats. Kṛṣṇa Śāstrī has identified it with Māski, situated to the west of Siddāpur in Mysore. It was most probably situated in the neighbourhood of Vāda in the north of the Thānā district and at Waghli in Khandesh, as the later Maurya inscriptions of Koṅkan and Khāndesh have been found at Vāda. An *Āryaputra* was stationed at Suvarṇagiri as a viceroy. He was either the son or brother of Aśoka. (Barua, *Aśoka and His Inscriptions*, p. 62; V. A. Smith, *Aśoka*, 44).