The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v2.c29.s2.166

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¹ The inscription was first noticed by Captain Wilford in the *Asiatic Researches*, Vol. XI, p. 108. Cunningham in his *ASR*, Vol. IX, pp. 82 ff., also gave an account of the grant. It was fully edited by Kielhorn in *EI*, Vol. II, pp. 297-310. For the date of the grant see also *ibid*, Vol. XII, p. 206, fn. Kielhorn suggested the identification of Veṇi with Wen-Gaṅgā of the C.P. This seems to be wrong. It should be identified with the river Veṇī, which flowed near Allahabad. In his Kamauli grant dated in V. S. 1228 (A.D. 1172 A.D.) the Gāhaḍavāla Jayaccandra is found bathing in the Veṇī at Prayāga; see *EI*, Vol. IV, p. 122. In *EI*, Vol. V, *Appendix*, p. 58, fn. 4, Kielhorn suggested the reading Prayāga for Svasāga. On the significance of the word *Trikaliṅga*, see G. Ramdas in *QJAHS*, Vol. I, Part I, July 1926, pp. 16 ff. He tried to prove that the affix means not *three* but *high*: so according to him *Trikaliṅga* means high or hilly Kaliṅga, *i.e.*, the highland intervening between Kaliṅga proper and Dakṣiṇa-Kosala or Chattisgarh (the tract now occupied by the Kalahandi State, Sambalpur district and Goomsur). But see the foot-note of the editor on p. 19, where he points out that *Tiru* (or *Tri*) is taken to be a corruption from Sanskrit *Śrī* and cannot signify 'high.' Pliny mentions *Macco-Calingae*, *Gangarides* *Calingae* and *Calingae*. Macco may signify the *Mekalas* who lived near the Maikal range. As the *Purāṇas* state that the Narbada drains the western half of Kaliṅga (Amarkaṇṭak in the Maikal range), Kaliṅga may have in its wider sense extended from the estuaries of the Ganges to the hills of Amarkaṇṭak in the west and possibly to Godavari in the South. But can *Macco* be the Dravidian *Muk* = three? See Barnett, *JRAS*, 1926, p. 157, fn. 1. See also *DHNI*, Vol. I, p. 392 fn. 1.