The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c35.s4.36

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During the tenth century we hear of wars between the Pallavas and the ancient dynasty of the Gaṅga kings of Gaṅgavādi, or Mysore, who are now commonly known as the Western Gaṅgas, in order to distinguish them from the family of the same name which ruled Kalinga in the east, and held court at Kalinganagaram, the modern Mukhalingam in the Ganjām District. Various inscriptions of the Western Gaṅgas, which are certainly genuine, date back to about the close of the fifth century A. C. ; ¹ and the dynasty appears to have reached the zenith of its power during the long reign of Srīpurusha (A. D. 725–776), whose territory was known as the Fortunate Kingdom.² The most notable king of the Eastern Gaṅgas of Kalinga was Anantavarman Chodagaṅga, who reigned for seventy-one years from A. D. 1076 to 1147, and carved out for himself a considerable kingdom, extending from the Ganges to the Godāvarī. He built the temple of Jagannāth at Puri.³