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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TRADITIONAL HISTORY OF KALINGA
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as the Sudyumna race, but it never played any noteworthy part. The third had no definite common name in tradition, yet being derived from the sons of Manu who was the son of Vivasvant (the Sun), it was designated the Mānava or Solar Race.
Later on, however, it appears that the Saudyumnas had been almost overwhelmed by the Anavas--descendants of the Purūravas Aila, and were restricted to the Utkalas and other people, who occupied the hilly tracts from Gaya in Bihar to Orissa. And this points to the establishement of the five Ānava kingdoms in the East-viz. the Anga, the Vanga, the Kalinga, the Suhma and the Pundra, which held all the sea-coast from Ganjam to the Gangetic delta and formed a long compact curved wedge with its base on the sea-coast and its northern point at Bhagalpur in Bihar.
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OTHER REFERENCES IN THE PURĀŅAS
In the Purāņas, as we have seen above, the country of Kalinga has been assigned an Aryan origin. Of the country, we are told that Přithu, son of Veņa, gave the country of Magadha to bards called the Māgadhas and the Sūtas, and the country of Kalinga to the Chāraņas.3
There was also a hill of this name which is supposed to have been founded by a son of king Bali, whose name was Kalinga. Kalinga is said to be a southern country of
1. Vāgu (99, 266) refers to Sudy umnas distinct from Ailas and Aikshvākus.
2. Brahmanda, III, 74, 28 & 87; Matsya, 48, 25; 114, 36 & 47; Vayu, 45, 125; 99, 28 ; Vishņu, II, 3, 16; IV, 18, 13-14.
3. Vayu, 62, 147; Brahmanda, II, 36, 172 ; Mbh, XII, 59, 2234; Brahma, 4, 67 ; Harivaṁsa, 5, 325; Padma, V, 1, 31 ; AIHT, p. 16. 4. Vayu, 85, 22 ; 42, 28.
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