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
towards a Dravidian origin of that king. But elsewhere in the J aina literature, mention is made of another city by name Dantapura, which finds frequent mention in the Buddhist literature. The king of Kalinga here has been named as Dantavakka.' Sylvain Levi has identified Dantapura with Poloura, also mentioned by Ptolemy, and placed it in the neighbourhood of Chicacole.
About Karakaņdu, it is mentioned that, once king Dadhivāhana ruled at Champā. His queen was Paumāvai (Padmāyati). When she was pregnant, she went, along with the king, for a sport in the forest on an elephant. The elephant, however, went out of control and ran into the deep forest. The king saved himself by catching hold of a branch of a banyan tree. But the queen was carried away to a far off place whence she reached Dantapura and there entered the ascetic order. In course of time, she gave birth to a prince who was named Karakandu and who ascended the throne of Kanchanapura. After a lapse of few years, in order, probably, to expand his kingdom, Karakandu waged a war upon Champā not knowing that the king of that city was his father. At this time, the nun Paumāyai appeared on the scene and introduced the son to the father and thus prevented bloodshed. Later on, Dadhivāhana transferred his kingdom to his son and entered the ascetic order. But the conclusion, that the kingdom of Champā
was annexed to that of Kalinga, does not carry us far. - Hence the above story may not be taken too historically.
Tosali has been mentioned in the Jaina literature as a centre of Jaina preachers and laity. There was a marvellous
1. Āvaśyaka Niryukti 1275 ; Suyagadaga 1, 6, 22 ; Qtd. J. C. Jain,
op cit.
2. Pre-Buddhist India, Bombay, 1941, p. 401. 3. Āvasyaka Chūrni, II, pp. 205f ; Utträdhyayana Sūtra, 18, 46.