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
Khāravela, regardless of Sātakarņi, sent a large army to the west (pachhime disam) to strike terror into Asika-nagar (Assaka-nagar). B. C. Lawl thinks that the Assaka of the Chūlla Kalinga Jātaka, the Asika-nagar of the Hāthigumphā inscription and the Assa ka of the Sutta-Nipāta? are one and the same place-names.
From early times, there seems to have been political intercourse between the peoples of Kalinga and Vanga. Suśīmā, the grandmother of Vijaya, who was the founder of the Simhalese race, was a Kalinga princess and was married to the king of Vanga.3 . Friendly relations between Ceylon and Kalinga were evidently of long standing, for, we find that during the reign of Aggabodhi II (A. D. 601-11), of Ceylon, the king of Kalinga, accompanied by his queen and ministers, paid a visit to Ceylon intent on leading a life of a recluse, and joined the Order there under Jotipāla. Aggabodhi and his queen treated them with great honour. The queen-consort of Mahinda IV of Ceylon was a princess from Kalinga, and Vijayabāhu I also of Ceylon married a Kalinga princess Tiloka Sundari.5 We are told that princes of the Kalinga country had many times obtained the sovereignty of Ceylon and that there were many ties of relationship between the royal families of the two countries. But it was Māgha, an offspring of the Kalinga kings, who did incomparable damage to Ceylon and to its religion and literature.? THE JAINA LITERATURE
The earliest reference to the country of Kalinga, in
1. Early Geographical Essays, Vol. I, p. 21. 2. V, 977. 3. Mahavamsa, VI, 1 ; Dipavainsa, IX, pp. 2f. 4. Chūlavamsa, XLII, pp. 44f. 5. Ibid, LIX, p. 30. 6. Ibid, LXIII, pp. 7 & 12f. 7. Ibid, LXXX, pp. 58f.