The Antiquities of Orissa v2.c18.119

v2.c18.119

**Chatia Hill.** Going further south, within 16 miles of Cuttack, the traveller comes to a range of hills, which, from its proximity of the village of that name on the Trunk Road, is called Chatiā. On the eastern side of it, close at its foot, one of the Uriya kings of the Gangetic line built his capital, and called it after the heavenly palace of Indra, 'Amarāvati. The hill too obtained the same name, but that name is now not much used. The palace and its surrounding fortifications are said to have once covered an area of over two miles. The walls of the fort made of laterite and four feet thick, are still prominent in many places ; but the bulk of the stones, both of the palace and the fort, has been removed by the Vandals of the Public Works Department, who have utilized it in paving the Trunk Road. A high platform with portions of broken walls and a number of pillars and capitals lying scattered here and there, now mark the site of the palace. On another platform were found two images of Indrāṇī, and within a short distance of the ruins there is a large tank called Nilapokhara⁴³.