The Geographical Dictionary of Ancient and Mediaeval India c5.s12.47

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Trikalinga—Same as Telingana. Trikalinga is mentioned in the Kumbhi Copper plate inscription in *JASB* (1839, p 481), which gives the genealogy of the Kalachuri dynasty. But Trikalinga, according to Pliny, comprised the regions inhabited by the Kalingæ, Macco Kalingæ and the Gangarides Kalingæ (Cunningham's *Ancient Geography of India*, p 519, *JASB*, 1837, p 286). The Kalingæ were the inhabitants of Kalinga proper, the Macco Kalingæ were the inhabitants of Madhya Kalinga or Orissa and the Gangarides Kalingæ were the Gânga Radhis or the people of Radha who lived on the banks of the Ganges, their capital being Gânge or Saptagrama (see *Saptagrama*, *Sumha* and *Râdha*). It appears that the kings of South Kosala or the Central Provinces were called kings of Trikalinga which evidently included Dakshina Kosala, including the Patna state of the Central Provinces (*Ep Ind*, vol III, pp 323, 359, *JASB*, 1905 p 1). According to General Cunningham Trikalinga or the three Kalingas were the three kingdoms of Dhanakaṭaka or Amarâvatî on the Krishnâ, Andhra or Warangal, and Kalinga or Râjamahendri (McCrindle's *Ptolemy*, p 233).