Sannati

Discovery Story of Sannati Sannati (RES XI and XIV on one side of the slab, and SRES I and II on the other side of it), Gulbarga district, Karnataka. It is located on Bhima river. Here are remains of fort datable to the Sātavāhana period. After Dhauli and Jaugada, this is the third and the last known site with Separate Rock Edicts I and II. It was discovered in 1989. (Thaplyal, Kumar. Kiran, Asoka the King and the Man. New Delhi. Aryan Books International. p. 280) Sannati: In January 1989 the ruined shrine of Kālikāmbā, or Mahākālī, adjoining the right side of the Candrālambā temple at Sannati, was cleared for restoration. The workmen, when cleaning the base slab of the image of the deity discovered that it was inscribed in archaic letters. After removal of the slab the rear side was inspected and further inscriptions were found. The front side contains parts of SepE1 and SepE2; the backside contains parts of RE12 and RE14. The first information was spread through IA-R 1988–89: 93 with pl. XLIX; another short notice came in IA-R 1989–90: 113, with pl. 33B. The site itself is situated in a large bend of the river Bhīmā, just like Banvāsī, the capital of Kadambas and Cālukyas, in a …