Studies in the Geography of Ancient and Medieval India c11.15

c11.15

of the Gaṅga family. Rāḍha and Kaliṅga do not appear to have had contiguous boundaries in any period of history. Siṃhapura in Rāḍha (probably modern Singur in the Hooghly District of West Bengal) cannot be regarded as the same as the Kaliṅga capital of that name, identified with modern Siṅgupuram near Śrīkākulam. The representation of Siṃhapura as the capital of Kaliṅga in the Mahāvaṃsa tradition seems to be due to the fact that the chronicle was composed about the fifth century while the Cūlavaṃsa appears merely to have continued the same tradition even though the later capital of the country was at Kaliṅganagara (modern Mukhaliṅgam near Śrīkākulam) and not at Siṃhapura.