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Ptolemy locates Pitundra-Pithuda between the mouths of the rivers Maisolos and Manadas, which is to say, between the deltas of the Godāvarī and the Mahanadi, nearly at an equal distance from both. Seeing that both Kalimga-nagara and Pithu aga mentioned in the Hathi-Gumpba inscription lay outside of the Tanasuliya or Tosali division and fell within the second division, we may be pretty certain about the extension of the second division of Kalinga during the reign of King Kharavela from the mouth of the Vamsadhara to as far south as the mouth of the Godāvarī, if not further south.
Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
The nanner in which King Asoka mentions in his edicts the kingdoms that lay outside of, and the territories that lay within, his empire enables us to conceive that, as early as the 3rd century B.C., just beyond the land of the Kalingas towards the south was the principality of the Andhras, that just beyond the latter was the independent kingdoms of the Cholas and Pandyas extending as far south as Tamraparni (nicam Coda Pamdiya avam Tambapamñiyā).
Our old Brahmi inscriptions are wanting in such clear data concerning the southern limit of the Mahasuliya-Mosali division of the Kalinga kingdom of King Kharavela. These are totally silent about the Andhras and the Cholas. But the Hathi-Gumpha inscription records that, in the twelfth regnal year of King Kharavela, the King of Pandya supplied him with the most valuable presents of pearls, gems and jewels and various kinds of apparels (Pamda-rajā vividhábharaṇāni muta-mani-ratanani aharapayati idha sata-sahasāni). In the absence of any mention of the Andhras and the Cholas, there may not be much difficulty in imagining that the second division of Kharavela's Kalinga stretched along the sea-coast even beyond the Godavari, and as far south as the mouths of the Krshna, if it was then known, as supposed, by the name of Mahasuliya-MaisoliaMosali-Mosala. Anyhow, the problem remains why the Andhras and the Cholas whose principalities lay to the north of Pandya have been passed over in silence in the inscription of King Kharavela.
A clear hint might be taken from one of the geographical allusions in the Hathi-Gumpha inscription in establishing the fact that the suzerainty of King Kharavela of Kalinga was felt in the south, along the eastern coast of the Deccan, into the very heart of the land of the Cholas, below the Krshna, below the Pennar, as far down as the northern limit of the kingdom of Pandya. The allusion referred to above is in the record of Kharavela's fourth regnal year wherein we read that His Majesty caused Arakatapura, the city of Arakata, inhabited by a race of magicians called
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