Jainism in Kalingadesa

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

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the Rajasuya-Yajna and remitted taxes and customs duties. The performance of the Rajasuya-Yajna by a Jain King of Kalinga affords further support to our argument that Kalinga formed the channel by which northern or Aryan culture progressed to the South.
In the seventh year possibly a child was born to Kharavela's queen, who was a princess of Vajjra-ghara, which has been identified by Prof. Krishnaswami Iyengar as the "important territory of Bengal on the side of Ganges.
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The first important campaign in North India was undertaken in the eighth year, when Kharavela marched with a large army towards Magadha and fought an important action at Gorathagiri (modern Barabar hill in the Gaya district), which was presumably one of the outlying fortresses protecting Rajagrha, the capital of Magadha. The rest of the line being damaged, the result of this campaign is not known.
The next line presumably gives record of the 9th year, when Kharavela gave away elephants, chariots and horses to the Brahmanas and built at the cost of thirty-eight lacs a palace called Maha-Vijaya.
In the tenth year Kharavela undertook his second campaign to North India and obtained his desired objects, the details of which have unfortunately been lost in the damaged portion of the 10th line.
In the 11th year he turned his attention to the South and destroyed the city of Pithunda and at the same time broke a league of Tamil kings which had existed for about 113 years. This is Prof. Banerji's interpretation, and it differs widely from how the other scholars have read this line; but it appears to be the most satisfactory interpretation, for it is based upon the assumption that Kharavela's conquests were made primarily in South India and not in North India. The absence of Kharavela's mention in the traditional literature of North India would obviously support Prof. Banerji's contention.
"See Some Contributions of South India to Indian Culture
p. 39.