Historical Geography of Ancient India c7.75

c7.75

At Bhuvanesvara there stands the Paraśurāmeśvara temple, which according to some, has been dated the 5th or 6th century A.D. (M. M. Ganguli, *Orissa and her Remains*, 270ff.). Scholars differ as to the date of this temple (vide *J.R.A.S.B.*, XV, No. 2, 1949, Letters, 109ff.). The Udyotakeśarin of the Bhuvanesvara Inscription has been identified with the prince of the same name whose inscriptions have been discovered in Orissa in the Lalatendu Keśarī and Navamuni caves (*E.I.*, XIII, 165-66). The Bhuvanesvara Stone Inscription of Narasimha I of the 12th century A.D. refers to the building of a Viṣṇu temple by Candrikā, sister of Narasimha, at Ekāmra or modern Bhuvanesvara in the Utkalaviṣaya (*Brahma-purāṇa*, Ch. 40). The Bhuvanesvara Stone Inscription incised on a slab of stone is on the western wall of the courtyard of the temple of Ānanda Vāsudeva at Bhuvanesvara in the Puri district (*E.I.*, XIII, 198-203).