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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TRIKALINGA
Besides the names of the above quoted regions we come across another name 'Tri-kalinga' as distinguished from ‘Tri-linga' or 'Tilinga'.
R. D. Banerji says that the country of Kalinga was divided into three parts in very early times and was called Trikalinga.' Cunningham writes that the Mahābhārata names the Kalingas three separate times and each time in conjunction with different peoples. Sylvain Levi has discussed all the three appelations which do not help us to find out the term 'Trikalinga' from them.3 Aśoka's edicts mention only one Kalinga,and after him under Khāravela, Kalinga became the centre of a powerful empire so that he assumed the title of Chakravartin'." As Khāravela's inscription omits Trikalinga, it is unsafe to think of it in those days. Pliny mentions Macco-Calingae, GangaridaeCalingae as separate peoples from those of Calingae and this led Cunningham to write that—the name Trikalinga is probably old and was known as early as the time of Megasthenes from whom Pliny chiefly copied his Indian geography?.6
Wilford writes on Trikalinga—“The sea coast of Calinga is divided into three parts emphatically called Tricalinga or three shores. The first Calinga includes the sea-coast about the mouth of the Indus, the second extends all round the Peninsula and the Gangetic shores of Cuttack to Chatgarh constitutes the third”.? He further writes
1. H. O., Vol. I, p. 1. 2. AGI, 1924, p. 591. 3. lro-Aryan & Pre Dravidian, p. 75. 4. R. E. XIII. 3. E. I., XX. 6. AGI, p. 594. 7. JASB, XX, 1851, p. 233,