History of Orissa from the Earliest Times to the British Period v1.c8.11

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To the south of Patna and Karond a broad horn of British territory along Kotpad, Naorangpur, Poragadh, Amarkot and Raigadh penetrates into this hilly country, dividing the Indian state of Bastar from the states now included in the modern province of Bihar and Orissa. In Bastar the modern Telugu or Andhra influence is traceable directly to the immigration of the Kākatīya dynasty, which migrated from Ekaśilā-nagarī or Warangal in the Godāvarī-Kṛṣṇā Doāb, across the Godāvarī, to the hilly country occupied by the aborigines when Warangal was finally conquered by the Bahmanī Sulṭāns of Bidar. The language spoken in this state is a sort of hybrid Telugu, which is as different from real Telugu as the Oṛiyā of Sambalpur is from the pure Oṛiyā of Puri and Cuttack.