خلاصه ماشینی:
THE DECCAN'S CONTRIBUTION TO INDIAN CULTURE ANCIENT HISTORY !HE Vindhya range of mountains, the Ganges and the Narbada rivers physically divide the surface of India into two main northern and southern parts.
Accordingly he sent Buddhist monks and missionaries with edicts to all parts of India including the Deccan, as has been lately established by the discovery of an important inscription at Maski in the Raichur District of the Nizam's Dominions, a great achievement of the Nizam's Archeeological Department.
"In the days of Chandragupta Maurya and Megasthenes, the Andhra nation, a Dravidian people, mentioned in Aitareya Brahmana of very early date, and now represented by the large population speaking the Telugu language, occupied the deltas of the Godavari and Krishna rivers on the eastern side of India and was reputed to possess a· military force second only to that at the command of the king of Prasii, Chandra• gupta Maurya.
He has caused the building of the Ellora Kailasa Temple, of which the people of the Nizam's Dominions are proud today, one of the wonders of the ancient world.
It is still practically followed by the people, and is of great importance for understanding the culture of the Hindus of the Deccan in those days.
Even the great Hindu epics Mahabharata and Ramayana bear the testimony that the ancients were quite familiar with wall-paintings but their actual existence in a definite part of India and at a definite period is not traceable from the epics.