History of Mediaeval Hindu India (being a History of India from 600 to 1200 A.D.) v1.c17.17

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As there is very little political history to record, we refrain from giving a list of the Kesari kings which Hunter has assidously collected and given in an appendix. Orissa must have been more than once conquered during this period by kings from the north, and we have an actual mention in the Nepal inscription of Jayadeva that Harshadeva of Assam did conquer Odra. Yet such conquests either from the north or the south were always temporary and only nominal and the indepndence of the Kesari line was not interfered with. These kings themselves cared very little for external conquests though perhaps Kongadu of Hiuen Tsang i. e. Ganjam in the south and Tāmralipti or Midnapur in the north may often have formed part of the kingdom of Orissa, under the Kesari kings.