Jainism in Kalingadesa

Author(s): Bool Chand
Publisher: Jain Cultural Research Society

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(8) cvents of Kharavela's reign. It mentions that Kharavela became the Yuvaraja or hcir-apparent at the age of 15 and was formally annointed king in the 24th year. The first year of the king's reign was spent in repairing the damages to the city of Kalinga caused by a cyclone. He repaired the forts, built thc dams and walls, and furnished the town with finc gardens, thus pleasing his three-and-a-half million people.
In the 2nd ycar. he undertook the first campaign of the reign; he sent his army westwards, where it Icached the river Krishna and caused tcrror to the city of the Mushikas. It is mentioned that all this was donc in defiance of Satakarni, who was presumably the third king of the Satavahana dynasty. The inscription gives no reasons for the cxpedition and no information about its final results. But the Mushikas wcre probably a subordinate ally of Satakarni and their country was more or less adjoining to Kalinga, for the Natya-sastra describes the Tosalas, thc Kosalas, the Mosalas (probably Mushikas), as related to the Kalingas.
The third year was marked by great rejoicings in the capital of Kalinga, where Kharavela established many pastimes.
The record of the fourth year is partly damaged. It opens with a reference to a city established by previous Kings of Kalinga and presumably in tact upto the time of Kharavcla, and then goes on to refer to the Rashtrikas and the Bhojakas, whom Kharavela compelled to submit to him. They were probably feudatory tribes to the Andhras.
In the fifth ycar, the inscription mentions that Kharavcla futher extended to his capital a canal opened in the year 103 of the Nandaraja. This reference enables us to state that possibly Tosali, in whose neighbourhood incidently this inscription Stands, was the capital of Kharaycla's kingdom.
The beginning of the next linc is damaged, but from the context we can infcr that it gives an account of the sixth ycar, during which Kharavcla performed