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 ORÍSSÅ and Kung-yu-to (Kongoda) in the north and An-to-lu (Andhra or Vengi) in the south, and seems to have embraced part of the Ganjam and Vizagapatam districts.
According to Hiuen Tsang's accounts, the kingdom of Kalinga was 5000 li or 833 miles in circuit.' Cunningham opines that as it was united to the south by Andhra and to the west by Dhankatak, its frontier line cannot be taken to have extended beyond the river Godāvari on the southwest and the Gaoliya branch of the river Indrāvati in the north-west. Within these limits the circuit of Kalinga would be about 800 miles definitely.
In course of time, however, these boundaries underwent a change. The kingdom of Utkala grew in extent as far as river Mahanadi. The kingdom of Kalinga extended towards the Godāvari river and as a result of an internecine struggle between the two royal dynasties inside the kingdom of Kalinga, there came into being new kingdoms of Tosala (which too was divided into two distinct portions, viz. the northern and the southern) and Kongoda (sometimes pronounced as Kongada). TOSALA
The Kalinga edicts of Asoka found at Dhauli-a hill in the Kharda sub-division of Puri district about seven miles south of Bhuvaneśvara, and Jaugada3 are addressed to the Mahāmātras at Tosali and Samāpā* which may have been the earlier capitals of the country of Kalinga. Tosali or Tosala, perhaps, occupied the same site as that of Dhauli today—the transformation of Tosali into Dhauli being not a
1. Cunningham, ACI, p. 815. 2. Ibid.
3. This is about 18 miles west of Ganjam town on the northern bank of river Risikulya in the Berhampur taluka of the Ganjam District.
4. I. A., Vol. LII, pp. 66f.