Asokan edicts and early Buddhist sites
Era: Mauryas & Satavahanas, Ikshvakus, Vishnukundins & early kingdoms
- Unified Andhra Pradesh (pre-2014)
- Present-day state borders, for orientation
Where the region's earliest writing has been found, from Asoka's edicts in Kurnool to the stupas of the Krishna valley.
Base map: Natural Earth (opens in a new tab) (public domain).
Sources
- D. C. Sircar and B. Ch. Chhabra (eds.), Epigraphia Indica, Vol. XXXII (1957–58) (opens in a new tab), Archaeological Survey of India, 1959. [Public domain in India]
- Jas. Burgess (ed.), Epigraphia Indica, Vol. II (1894) (opens in a new tab), Archaeological Survey of India, 1894. [Public domain]
- James Burgess, The Buddhist Stupas of Amaravati and Jaggayyapeta in the Krishna District, Madras Presidency, Surveyed in 1882 (opens in a new tab), Trübner & Co. for the Archaeological Survey of Southern India, 1887. [Public domain]
- Hirananda Sastri (ed.), Epigraphia Indica, Vol. XX (1929–30) (opens in a new tab), Archaeological Survey of India, 1933. [Public domain]