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TRADITIONAL HISTORY OF KALINGA 113 who had ned, with their daughter, from their city of Sāgala (modern Sialkot). Soothsayers had predicted that the princess's son would be a Chakravartin and hence all the kings of Jambudvīpa sought her hand. Her parents, however, not wishing to incur the enmity of any of the kings, fled with her from the city. One day a wreath of mango.flowers, which the princess had dropped into the river, was picked up by Chūllakalinga, who thereupon went in search of her. With her parent's consent, he married her. A son was born to them whom they called Kalinga, When the stars revealed that Mahā kalinga had died, Kalinga was sent to a courtier in Dantapura who had been an ally of Chūllakalinga. The prince's identity having duly been established, he was crowned king, and his chaplain, Kälinga-Bhāradvāja, taught him the duties of a Chakravartin. Prince Kalinga has been identified with Anand and Kālinga-Bhāradvāja with the Bodhisattva.1 The Kalingabodhi Jātaka is repeated also in the Mahābodhivamsa in much greater details. 2
According to the Sārabhanga Jātaka, a certain king of Kalingas went with two other kings, Atthaka and Bhimarattha, to ask Sārabhanga questions referring to the fate of Dandaki. There they heard the sage preach and all the three became ascetics. Another king of Kalinga was Nālikīra, who, on having ill-treated a holy man, was swallowed up in the sunakha-niraya, while his country was laid waste by the gods and turned into wilderness (Kalingārañña).4
1. Malalasekera, DPPN, pp. 585-6. 2. Ibid. 8. Jataka, Vol. V, pp. 135f.
4. The Kalingirañña is referred to in the Upali-Sutta-Majjhima Nikāya, 1, 378. The story is related in Jataka (V. 144), and in greater details in Pāpañcha Sudani, Majjhima Commentary, II, pp. 602f,
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