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² If, as is probable, Kaliṅga included at this time the neighbouring country of Aśmaka, then Parthalis may be the same as "Potali". For an interesting account of Kaliṅga and its early capitals Dantakūra and Tosali, see Sylvain Lévi, "*Pré-Aryen et Pré-Dravidien dans l'Inde*," J. A., Juillet-Septembre, 1923; and *Indian Antiquary*, 1926 (May), pp. 94, 98. "The appellation of Kaliṅga, applied to Indians throughout the Malay world, attests the brilliant *rôle* of the men of Kaliṅga in the diffusion of Hindu civilisation." Not far from the earliest capital (Paloura-Dantapura-Dantakūra) lay the *apheterion*, "where vessels bound for the Golden Peninsula ceased to hug the shore and sailed for the open sea." Note, in this connection, the name Ho-ling (Po-ling, Kaliṅga) applied by the Chinese to Java (Takakusu, I-tsing, p. xlvii) an island which was known by its Sanskrit name to Ptolemy (150 A. D.) and even to the *Rāmāyaṇa* (*Kishk*. 40. 30). For the connection of early Kaliṅga with Ceylon, see *IA*, VIII, 2, 225.