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intimate association of Sanskrit and the vernacular languages, leading to an importation of Sanskrit words into vernacular compositions and the fasltinning of the syntax according to the. models of Sanskrit prose celebrated during those times for euphony and grandeur. • While literary styles have thus been Karnāta fashioned in the Andhra and Karnāta mandalas, Kalinga, a similar process of development was going on in the Kalinga mandala, the other great strong hold of the Telugu peoples. The Kingdom of Kalinga is probably more ancient than any of the Andhra or Karnāta kingdoms. At a time when the latter were ppt indifferentiated parts of the Andhra Empire of the Satavahanas, the Kalinga kingdom was so celebrated that it attracted an expedition from Asoka which proved a turning point in his spiritual history. Even by the time of Asoka's conquest, Kalinga was a seat of learning and under his immediate succes
ors it became in a larger measure the seat, particularly, of Buddhist learning. But the history of Kalingai, social, political and cultural is yet so much of an unbroken field (notwithstanding the few Kalinga grants yet published), that nothing can be stated with an air of finality in matters affecting the chronology of its kings. But until the political history of that Ancient kingdom is attempted in some satisfactory measure, its cultural history in relation to the history of the Telugų literary dialect cannot be undertaken with any measure
