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
vishaya. Pargiter has identified the stream with Ken and places the city of Šuktimati in the neighbourhood of modern Banda. Other towns of note were Sahajāti? which stood on the trade route along the Ganga ;- Tripuri which was situated near the Narmada not far from Jubbulpur. In Haimkosha, it is called Chedinagari. The city finds a mention in the Mahābhārata® along with Kośala and its people. The Traipuras are referred to in the same Epic together with the Mekalas and the Kurubindas.?
In the present state of our knowledge, it is not quite easy to determine as to how Kbāravela was a scion of the Chedi-vamsa. But since he takes pride in calling himself "chctirāja-vam sa-vadhanena', it is not improbable if some Chedi prince migrated from Madhyadeśal or from Magadha, which was the second principality of the Chedis, to Kalinga, where he cațved out a principality for himself which ultimately became a mighty empire.' And, Khāravela might have been a descendant of the same prince.
1. I, 63, 35. 2. JASB, 1895, p. 255; Mārkandeya Purana, p. 369.
3. Anguttara, III. p. 356 (P. T. 8.). "Āyasmā mahāchundo cheti su viharati sahajatiyam."
4. Buddhist India, p. 103; Cf. Sahijitiya nigamasa' the legend on a seal-die of terracotta found at Rhita, 10 miles from Allahabad-Aroh. Expl. Indi. 1909-10, by Marshall; JRAS, 1911, pp. 128f. This inscription is in letters of about the 3rd Century B. C.-JBORS, Vol., XIX, 1933, p. 293
5. JASB, 1895, p. 249. 6. III, 253, 10. 7. VI, 87, 9.
8. D. C. Sircar (AIU, p. 211) also holds the same view. Further, Dr. V.8. Agarwal of the Banaras Hindu University, with whom the author bad the privilege of discussing the above problem, too was of the same opinion.