A new site, built from published sources. Spotted a mistake? Please tell us
Telugu Historyతెలుగు చరిత్ర

Asoka's empire and edicts in the south

Era: Mauryas & Satavahanas

Asoka's empire and edicts in the southGodavariKrishnaAsoka's empire, c. 250 BCE (after V. A. Smith, 1920)ErragudiErragudiRajula-MandagiriRajula-MandagiriAmaravati & DharanikotaAmaravati & DharanikotaBhattiproluBhattiproluMaski (Minor Rock Edict)Brahmagiri, Siddapura, Jatinga-Ramesvara (Minor Rock Edicts)Gavimath and Palkigundu (Minor Rock Edicts)Jaugada (Rock Edicts)Dhauli (Rock Edicts)N0100 km
  • Unified Andhra Pradesh (pre-2014)
  • Present-day state borders, for orientation
  • Approximate extent

Where Asoka's edicts have been found in and near the Telugu country, with the southern frontier of his empire as Vincent Smith drew it in 1920. The frontier is approximate: Smith drew it just north of Nellore, eight years before the Kurnool edicts were found.

Historical boundaries are approximate. Base map: Natural Earth (opens in a new tab) (public domain). Redrawn from: The Empire of Asoka, 250 B.C. (opens in a new tab), Vincent A. Smith, 1920 (Public domain). Attributions

Sources

  1. Vincent A. Smith, Asoka, the Buddhist Emperor of India (Rulers of India), 3rd edition (opens in a new tab), Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1920, map at end (PDF p. 285). [Public domain]
  2. E. Hultzsch, Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum, Vol. I: Inscriptions of Asoka (New Edition) (opens in a new tab), Clarendon Press, Oxford, for the Government of India, 1925, xiii–xv, xxv–xxvii, xxxviii. Dhauli and Jaugada; Maski; the Siddapura group and the district of Isila. [Public domain]
  3. R. L. Turner, The Gavimath and Palkigundu Inscriptions of Asoka (Hyderabad Archaeological Series No. 10) (opens in a new tab), H.E.H. the Nizam's Government, Hyderabad, 1932, pp. 1–2, Pl. XVIII. Gavimath and Palkigundu near Kopbal; Oldham's sketch map of the southern Asokan sites. [Public domain]
  4. H. Hargreaves (ed.), Annual Report of the Archaeological Survey of India, 1928-29 (opens in a new tab), Government of India, 1933, pp. 161–164. [Public domain]
  5. D. C. Sircar and B. Ch. Chhabra (eds.), Epigraphia Indica, Vol. XXXII (1957–58) (opens in a new tab), Archaeological Survey of India, 1959, pp. 1–3. [Public domain in India]
  6. N. Lakshminarayan Rao and D. C. Sircar (eds.), Epigraphia Indica, Vol. XXXI (1955–56) (opens in a new tab), Archaeological Survey of India, 1960, pp. 211–212. [Public domain in India]
  7. 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, pp. 101. [Public domain]
  8. Jas. Burgess (ed.), Epigraphia Indica, Vol. II (1894) (opens in a new tab), Archaeological Survey of India, 1894, pp. 325. [Public domain]
  9. Government of India, Imperial Gazetteer of India, Provincial Series: Madras, Vol. I (opens in a new tab), Superintendent of Government Printing, Calcutta, 1908, pp. 15. [Public domain]