History of Orissa from the Earliest Times to the British Period v1.c16.13

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Short and meagre as the description is Yuan Chwang’s account of the three different divisions of ancient Orissa, Oḍra, Koṅgoda and Kaliṅga, serves to illustrate a very little known chapter of the history of that country. Recent research has thrown fresh light on the names and places mentioned by the Chinese pilgrims and made what was unintelligible to Beal and Watters perfectly clear to us.¹