The Antiquities of Orissa v1.c6.47

v1.c6.47

Little is to be met with about Orissa in the Sanskrit literature of the first four or five centuries of the Christian era. In the *Raghuvamśa*, Kālidāsa makes Raghu cross the Kapiśā river by a bridge of elephants, and then proceed to Kaliṅga under the guidance of a king of the Oḍras.³⁴ In the charming drama of *Ratnāvalī*, a work of a later age, we find a princess of Ceylon wrecked on the Orissa coast; but there is no description of the place given in it, and even doubts may be entertained as to whether the poet intended to allude to Orissa or to Kaliṅga further down.