History of Orissa from the Earliest Times to the British Period v2.c46.80

v2.c46.80

Returning to the Bhuvaneśvara group, we find that in the third group the temples of Liṅgarāja, Ananta-Vāsudeva and Brahmeśvara stand prominent. The temple of Liṅgarāja is ascribed to a mythical king named Yayāti-Keśarī, who is probably the same as Mahāśivagupta Yayāti, the son and successor of Mahābhavagupta Janamejaya.¹ The late Mr. Mano Mohan Ganguly has taken great pains to prove that Mahāśivagupta reigned in the 9th century A. D., but the recent discovery of the inscriptions of the two groups of Kara kings² and the certain evidence of Chinese history about the identity and date of Śubhakara makes it impossible to think of the Somavaṁśī dynasty as reigning in Northern or Central Orissa at that date. Moreover, if the Paraśurāmeśvara was built about the middle of the eighth century, since [Figure: Vimāna of the Liṅgarāja—View from the North Bhuvanesvara—Puri District]