Geography of Early Buddhism c10.22

c10.22

According to the Mahāvastu (Senart’s Ed., III, p. 361) Dantapura which is mentioned by Yuan Chwang as a city of the Kaliṅga country was a capital city. Evidently it was the capital of the Kaliṅga kingdom (according to Mahāvastu), and existed ages before the Buddha (Jāt., II, p. 367). ‘Probably it is the Dantapura where Kṛṣṇa crushed the Kaliṅgas (Udyoga-parva, XLVII, 1883); Dandagula or Dandaguda, the capital of Calingæ, mentioned by Pliny shows that the original form was Dantakura and not Dantapura’ (CAGI., p. 735).