History of Orissa from the Earliest Times to the British Period v1.c13.39

v1.c13.39

At the end of the campaign of the 12th year in Northern India Khāravela plundered Aṅga and Magadha and brought away the riches of the modern districts of Shahabad or Arrah, Patna, Gaya, Bhagalpur and Munger. This was a fitting sequel to the capture of Pāṭaliputra, up to that time regarded as the metropolis of Northern India. This was also the crowning act of his career, and throughout his own dominion it must have been regarded with great satisfaction as a fitting retaliation to the barbarities of the people of Magadha in the time of the Nandas and the Mauryas. At the end of the account of the 12th year of his reign, caves were excavated and this may refer to the great Rāṇī Nūr or Rāṇinavara Gumphā to the east of the Hāthigumphā. In the same year Khāravela subdued the Pāṇḍyas and the extreme south of the Indian Peninsula, who sent jewellery either as present or tribute.