1. What does the Hathigumpha inscription tell us?
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The Hathigumpha Inscription ("Elephant Cave" inscription), from Udayagiri, near Bhubaneswar in Odisha, was inscribed by Kharavela, the then Emperor of Kalinga in India, during 2nd century BCE.[1] The Hathigumpha Inscription consists of seventeen lines in a Central-Western form of Prakrit incised in a deep-cut Brahmi
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in the 2nd century BC hathigumpha inscription of kharewala the king of Kalinga, it is stated that he destroyed a confederacy of Tamil States. this inscription itself is in a ruind condition but it states for the that Khare wala brought pearls horses elephants jewels and rubies from the Pandya country this gives us an idea that the Tamil word was enjoying a flourishing trade in various commodities and abundant wealth had been accumulated by the inhabitants of that land. besides these sources, the valuable Corpus of literature called the Sangam literature paints a vivid picture of their social and political life