History of India, c. 150 A.D. to 350 A.D.: Naga–Vakataka Imperial Period c16.s3.19

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135 A. Samudra Gupta passed through Kosala on his Sambhalpur route, and then Mahākāntāra which on the evidence of the Mahā-Bhārata we have identified with Kanker and Bastar. Next he came to Kurāḷa. He must have passed Veṅgī¹ but the ruler of Veṅgī is placed next to the ruler of Piṣṭapura, the capital of Kaliṅga, which was in the Godavari District. This ruler (Svāmidatta) had also two districts in Ganjam round the hill-fortresses of Mahendragiri and Koṭṭūra. Eraṇḍapalli was a town in Kaliṅga, in the district of Ganjam, in the neighbourhood of Kaliṅganagara (Mukhalingam) which is mentioned in the copperplate of Devendra-varman, found at Siddhantam near Chicacole (E.I., XIII, 212). This district must have been under Svāmidatta of Piṣṭapura, and Damana of Eraṇḍapalli must have been a ‘rājā’ or ruler of the status of a district officer. Next to him is Viṣṇugopa, the ruler of Kāñchī, who at the time was the Yuvarāja to his brother Simhavarman I, or probably the guardian of girika-Kauṭṭūraka Svāmidatta; (5) Eraṇḍapallaka Damana; (6) Kāñcheyaka Viṣṇugopa; (7) Avamuktaka Nīla-rāja; (8) Vaiṅgeyaka Hastivarman; (9) Pālakkaka Ugrasena; (10) Daivarāṣṭraka Kubera; (11) Kausthalapuraka Dhanañjaya (prabhṛiti-sarvva-Dakṣiṇāpatha-rāja-, etc.).