History of Orissa from the Earliest Times to the British Period v1.c17.29

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hill. From the inscription in Lalāṭendu-keśarī's cave we learn that Khaṇḍagiri was called the Kumāra hill. The ancient names of Khaṇḍagiri and Udayagiri were, therefore, Kumāra and Kumārī. In the Navamuni cave on the same hill there is another pilgrim's record belonging to the reign of Udyotakeśarī. It states that in the year 18 of the reign of Udyotakeśarī the Āchārya Kulachandra's disciple, Śubhachandra came to this shrine.¹ Another inscription, discovered somewhere in Bhuvaneśvara, but now missing, was incised in the 18th year of the reign of Udyotakeśarī, Lord of the three Kaliṅgas. From the published texts the late Dr. Kielhorn compiled the following summary of this inscription: "Janamejaya of the lunar race, his son Dīrgharava, and his son Apavāra who died childless; after him, Vichītravīrya (another son of Janamejaya), his son Abhimanyu, his son Caṇḍīhāra, and his son Udyotakeśarin, whose mother was Kolāvatī of the solar race."² Beyond this we do not know anything of Udyotakeśarī. If his ancestor, Janamejaya, is the same as Mahābhavagupta of the Soma-vaṁśī dynasty of Mahākośala, then, inspite of his affix Keśarī he cannot be taken to be a descendant of the Kara dynasty.