Ancient India - Bulletin of the Archaeological Survey of India July 1947 to January 1948

Such are the short cists typical of the Bronze Age in Highland Britain and Eire the Chamblandes tombs of Switzerland and Upper Italy or further east the graves of the `Minyans' in Middle Helladic Greece.' But the component stones particularly the capstone of such cists at least in the British Isles are often large and heavy. [...] Evidently the scribe had before him% draft which he copied mechanically and if a particular line m the draft did not fit into the space available on the stone he continued it fro& the right towards the left till that line was ed.1 Furthermore the language of the Minor Rock-edict is in r dialect as found in the Gin& version and the three Mysore edicts while the language of the fourteen Rock-edi [...] According to the Rock-edict XIII the tribes which were distinguished from the above as living in the king's territory (iha-reijavisaye) were: the Yonas and the Kambojas the NAbhakas and the NAbhapafiktis the Bhojas and the Pitinikas the Andhras and the PArindas. [...] In this style of writing the direction of line is alternated like the course of a plough the first line usually beginning on the right and second on the left immediately below the end of the first and so on and the lines are normally of approximately equal length where the nature of the surface of the material on which the record is incised permits. [...] Bhandarkar identifies this river either with the Tel or the Telangiri both flowing near the confines of the Provinces of Madras and the Central Provinces and suggests that this Andhapura must have been the capital of the early Andhra kingdom.' If his identification is correct the early Andhra territory must have comprised parts of both the Provinces of Madras and the C. P. The Pali Apadana giv