Early History of Orissa

SR No.: 006922
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Amarchand Mittal
Publisher: Jain Cultural Research Society
Publication Year: 1957
Total Pages: 506
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 9 MB

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AN EARLY HISTORY OF ORISSA
having been delivered from bodily hurt and from danger in the river. This is not improbable, opines Pargiter,' because these Angirasa Rishis were living in the kingdom of Vaišali, so that he might easily have been put on a raft in the Ganga there and was drifted some seventy miles down to the Monghyr and Bhagalpur territory which was the Anava realm and was soon afterwards called the Anga kingdom.
In the Anava kingdom, Dirghatamas married the Queen's sudra nurse and had many sons from her. At a request from king Bali, Dirghatamas begot on his Queen Sudeshṇā five sons according to the well-established Indian Law of Levirate." These sons were called Baleya-kshatra and also Baleya-brāhmaṇas and were named The counAnga, Vanga, Kalinga, Pundra and Suhma. tries, over which they ruled, were named after them.
The above tradition, hence, makes it clear that Rishi Dirghatamas was the progenitor of prince Kalinga, after whom the country, where he ruled, came to be called, and since the Rishi in question is known to the Rig Veda, the conclusion is irresistible that the country of Kalinga also existed during that period as a separate unit. THE BRAHMAŅAS & THE ĀRAṆYAKAS
During the Brahmana period also Kalinga as such does not appear to have been mentioned anywhere in literature. It is again left more as a matter of inference. Among the kingdoms of the south, the rulers which are
1. AIHT, p. 158.
2. Brahmans in those early days rendered this service. Vasishtha begot Asmaka to king Kalmashapida's Queen (Mbh, I, 122, 4736 37; 177, 6787-91; Vayu, 88, 177; Brahmaṇḍa, III, 63, 177; Linga, I, 66, 27-8; Kurma, I, 21, 12-13; Bhagwata, IX, 9, 38-9). Vyasa begot Dhritarashtra, and Pandu (Mbh, I, 64, 2460-4; 104, 4176-8).