Studies in the Geography of Ancient and Medieval India c12.13

c12.13

Ptolemy mentions the city of Dosara¹ apparently as the metropolis of this land. He locates Dosara in the land of the Kokkonagai who lived to the west of the country watered by the mouths of the Ganges. Some scholars trace the Indian name Daśārṇa in Dosarene.² But it is impossible to locate the places mentioned by the Greek authors outside modern Orissa. It seems that Dosara is a modification of the Indian name Tosala (the same as Tosalī or Tosalā), identified with modern Dhauli in the Puri District. The early times, Tosalī was the capital of the Kaliṅga country.