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Eastern Gaṅga Incursion. Rājarāja III, who was ruling in Kaliṅga at the time of Gaṇapati’s invasion, died soon afterwards. His son Anaṅga (Aniyaṅka) Bhīma III, who succeeded him in A.D. 1211, freed his country from the Kākatīya yoke, and penetrated into Gaṇapati’s territories as far west as the frontier of Veṅgī before his 8th year (A.D. 1217). In an inscription at Dākshārāmam dated in that year he claims to have already effected the deliverance of the Trayī-vasundharā, that is, the Trikaḷiṅga country.³ Anaṅga Bhīma III was an ambitious monarch; he was not satisfied with the expulsion of the invaders from his native country but was desirous of effecting the conquest of the fertile land of Veṅgī. Circumstances do not seem to have favoured the immediate prosecution of his designs. He had therefore to bide his time, awaiting a suitable opportunity for launching an expedition against that country.