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• JAINISM IN LITERARY TRADITION. (113 Ahichchatrapura, . where he, performed the Aindradhvajapūja and Dēvēndra being pleased thereat gave him airavata (His elephant, regent elephant of the east). To Vishnugupta and his wife Prithvīmati were born the sons Bhagadatta and Srīdatta. To the former (Bhagadatta) the father gave Kalinga which he ruled in peace as Kalinga Ganga.”1 Thus the Kalinga and Maisur Gangas seem to have been connected in a common progenitor Vishnugopa of Ahichchatrapura, thus :Vishnugopa of Ahichchatrapura
=Prithvīmati.
Bhagadatta'
Srīdatta (Eastern Ganga) (Western Ganga) • But this Bhagadatta otherwise known as Kalinga Ganga has not been identified in Kalinga history. In fact in the published information about the relation of the Eastern Gangas of Kalinga with the Western Gangas of Gangavadi, I have met as yet no where with an attempt to make anything out of this tradition. The Gangas of Kalinga known from inscriptions make no reference to Ahichhatrapura. But there is a place called Chatrapur in the Ganjam District which is the headquarters of the Ganjam Collectorate. This was possibly the place founded in the Kalinga country by this Bhaga-. datva as his capital, a sort of analogy to the Ahichchatrapura which was the capital in Gangavadi of his father's empire. There are widely
? Can this person be the Ganjam-Vizagapatam •District Raja Kalinga "Ganga of the Inscriptions ;
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