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
themselves as lords of Kalinga, issued their grants from the victorious comp (vijayavataḥ) at Kalinga-nagara. The later Ganga kings of Kalinga also in most cases issued their grants from this city. The city is variously identified with Mukhalingam, some 20 miles from Parlakimedi in the Ganjam district. It was also called a nagar. R. Subba Rao says that Mukhalingam was the ancient capital city of Kalinga, both in times of early and later Gangas, identified with Calingapatam, a sea-coast town in the Bay of Bengal about 20 miles from Chicacole at the mouth of the Vamsadhārā river. But, besides Kalinganagara, the Plates of the early Ganga kings of Kalinga, like Jayavarmadeva and Indravarman, refer to the victorious residence of Śvataka,' which has been sought to be identified with Chikati in the Ganjam district. It should be stated in this connection that some epigraphs of a line of kings whose names end in ‘varman' and who call themselves Kalingādhipati throw much light on the history and geography of Kalinga. Thus a grant of Višākhavarman" was issued from Śrīpura which is regarded as identical
1. Original: “Sakala Kalingadhirūjyah". 2. E.I., XXVI, 67. 3, DHNI, I, pp. 457-8. 4. Ibid. pp. 448 & 485, fn. 3. 6. E.I., XXIII, 65. 6. JAHRS, VI, pp. 52-62 & 83-81. 7. E.I., XX, pp. 79-80.
8. Kalingapattam is perhaps also referred to in the Pattanabhoga of the Plates of Anantavarman (E.I., XXIV, 49, fn. 5) which is evidently derived from Pattana, perhaps an abbreviation from Kalinga.pattana.
9. E.I., XXIII, 261 ; XXIV, 181 ; XXVI, 167.
10. Dr. R. C. Majumdar holds that they ruled in Kalinga during the interval between the invasion of Samudragupta and the rise of the Ganga dynasty, and that they all flourished between A. D. 400-500 (E.I., XXIII, 68 ; XXIV, 50).
11. E.I., XXI, 24.