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66 ANDHRA KARNATA JAINTSM. the modern Halsi. To this Palasika corresponds Palasa in the Ganjam District, which must once have been a flourishing capital of the Kadamba line of Kalinga whom perhaps the Gangas of Kalinganagara succeeded as Trikalingadhipatis. But we bave the modern city of Banavasi or Vaijayanti as residence of one of the Kadamba kings called Mrigēsa. Corresponding to this Banavasi or Vaijayanti, we have in Kalinga, a Jayantīpura ; and a Jayanti family of Telugu Brahmans. Either this Jayantīpura of Kalinga was the capital of a collateral line of Kadambas who adopted Saivism or Vaishnavism or it was made capital in succession vo Palasa when the Jaina Kadambas adopted Puranic Brahmanism as their state religion. A family of Kadambas, however, tracing their descent from Mayuravarma state that they acquired sovereignty through the favour of Jayanti-Madhukēsvara (Banavasi being otherwise called Jayantīpura). There is a temple of Madhukēsvara in Banavasi and Madhulinga occurs as the name of a Brahman priest thereof. The village called Mukhalingam in the Ganjam District owned by the Zamindar of Parlakimedi is called Jayantīpura in the Sthalapurana relating to it. Rao Sahib G. V. Ramamurti Pantulu Garu, B.A., my revered teacher, identified this village many years back as the Kalinganagara mentioned by the Eastern Ganga Kings of Kalinga in their copperplate grants and stone inscriptions. This place contains a temple dedicated to Madhukēsvara. But Madhukēsvara was never the family deity
