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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POLITICAL DIVISIONS OF THE COUNTRY
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south, is to ignore all ancient notices of the geography of this portion of India.
There are indications in the inscriptions to maintain that Kalinga lay to the south of Risikulya. In the Raghuvarhśa the Kalinga king is described as the overlord of both the Mahendra hills' and the sea, and similar references to the close connection of the country with the Mahendra mountain, which are also recorded in inscriptions, suggest that the territories round about the Mahendra-giri' in the Ganjam district were in the heart of the Kalinga country.
The Jaina Upānga called the Prajñāpana refers to Kanchanapura, and the Mahābhārata to Rājapura as the metropolis of Kalinga, while Dantapura, a famous Kalinga town,' has been plausibly connected with the fort of Dantạ. vaktra near Chicacole. The Kathāsaritasāgara refers to Sabhāyati as a Kalinga city.' The Hāthīgumphā Inscription of Khāravela?° refers to Kalinga-nagara as being the capital city. Most of the Early Garga rulers!like Hastivarman,12 Indravarman,13 Devendravarman who describe
1. IV, 38-43 ; VI, 53-54. 2. V, 56. 3. E. I., XIX, 135 ; DHNI, 1, pp. 443 & 452. 4. I, 150.
5. I. A., XX, p. 375. Dalsukh D. Malvasia in Jainagama (p. 23) assigns a date between 135-94 before the Vikrama era to this work.
6. XII, 4, 3. 7. Mbh., VII, 68, 5; "Dantakura."
8. PHAI, p. 75 ; See also E. I., XXV, 285. For Ptolemy's Paloura and Dantapura, and other views connected with the location of the latter BOB HAIB, 29.
9. II, pp. 351 & 412. 10. E.I., XX, pp. 79.80. 11. 1.A., XIII, 273. 12. E.1., XXIII, 68. 13. E.I., XXV, 195. 14. E.1., XXVI, 63.