History of India, c. 150 A.D. to 350 A.D.: Naga–Vakataka Imperial Period c16.s2.33
History of India, c. 150 A.D. to 350 A.D.: Nāga–Vākāṭaka Imperial Period c16.s2.33
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126. The Province of Kalinga-Māhishika¹. Mahendra (or, -Mahendrabhūmi) was made into one unit, according to the Purāṇas. This corresponds with the inscriptional divisions in line 19. After Mahā Kāntāra, Kaurāla, which is ‘the Kaunāla water’ of Pulakeśin II, is the Kolleru lake to the south of Pithāpuram between the rivers Godāvarī and Krishnā². Pishtapura, Mahendragiri and Koṭṭūra are the hill-fortresses in Ganjam³. This corresponds roughly with what we now call the Eastern Ghats or the Northern Circars of the E. I. Company, i.e. the territory between the river Krishnā and the Mahānadī. Pishtapura was the capital of Kalinga, as noted in almost a contemporary inscription of ‘the Magadha dynasty’ ruling at Pishtapura and Simhapura⁴.