Political History of Ancient India, from the Accession of Parikshit to the Extinction of the Gupta Dynasty c9.s6.28
Political History of Ancient India, from the Accession of Parikshit to the Extinction of the Gupta Dynasty c9.s6.28
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¹ *Cf. Ep. Ind.*, XIV, p. 361, *Danta-pura-vāsakāt*; Dantakūra, Mbh. V. 48 76. Dandagula (Pliny, M'Crindle, *Megasthenes and Arrian*, 1926, p. 144). The name of the city probably survives in that of the fort of Dantavaktra near Chicacole in the Gañjām district. Many other Kaliṅga capitals stood in the same district, *e. g.*, Siṁhapura (Singupuram) near Chicacole, Dubreuil, *A. H. D.*, p. 94, Kaliṅga-nagara (Mukhaliṅgam on the Vaṁśadharā, *Ep. Ind.*, IV, 187; Kaliṅgapātam is preferred in *Ind. Ant.*, 1887, 132; *JBORS*, 1929, pp. 623 f. But the arguments adduced are not all plausible).