Old Bramhi Inscriptions In Udaygiri And Khandagiri

SR No.: 020516
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Benimadhab Barua
Publisher: University of Calcutta
Publication Year: 1929
Total Pages: 354
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 15 MB

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who was defeated by him was King Mahendra of Kosala. This Kosala or South Kosala as may be now ascertained, “comprised the modern Bilaspur, Raipur and Sambalpur districts, and occasionally even a part of Ganjam."! " Its capital was Srīpura, the modern Sirpur about 40 miles east by north from Raipur."'?
None need be surprised that the Buddhist story under notice3 grew up round the tradition of King Mahendra of Kosala or South Kosala who was a contemporary of Samudragupta, and that Hastināpura, which is said to have been the capital of King Mahendra, was just another name for Śrīpura. The story distinctly says that Kalinga was conquered and governed by the three sons of King Mahendra for their father. We may understand from this that Kalinga proper was treated as a seat of viceroyalty with its official headquarters at Simhapura or Singupuram near Chicacole.
Thus our enquiry concerning the successive capitals of Kalinga leads us to a point where we have to recognise (1) that the capital of the kingdom during the reign of Khāravela and other kings of the Aira. Meghavāhana dynasty was Kalinga-nagara, the modern Mukhalingam on the Vamśadhārā in the Ganjam district ; (2) that Pithudaga-Pithuda was the capital of the former kings of Kalinga before the advent of King Nanda of Arga- Magadha in Kalinga and the reign of the kings of the A ira-Meghavāhana dynasty ; (3) that Tosali-Dhauli and Samānā were respectively the official headquarters of two divisions of Kalinga during the reign of King Devānampriya Asoka of Magadha; (4) that the still earlier capital of the kingdom was Dantapura-Paloura near Chicacole; (5) that the capital of the kingdom under Dancaka is unknown; (6) that Śrīpura-Hastināpura and Simhapura-Singupuram were respectively the seats of government in South Kosala and Kalinga proper during the reign of Rājā Mahendra in the middle of the 4th century A.D.; (9) that Rajamahendri became the Chalukya capital in Kalinga in the 8th century A.D.; and (8) that the city of Kalinga again became the capital of the kingdom in the 11th century A.D. when the kings of the Ganga dynasty made themselves masters thereof.
Now we shall pursue an enquiry concerning the territorial extension and political divisions of Kalinga during the reign of Khāra vela, as well
1. & 2. 4. C. Raychaudhuri's Political History of Ancient India, 2nd edition, pp. 337-338.
3. According to the Buddhavamsa and the Jataka Nidana-Katha, the previons Buddha Pusya, was the son of King Jayasena of Kāśi.
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