Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v1.c6.3578

v1.c6.3578

According to the *Culla Kāliṅga Jātaka*,⁹ at one time the King of Assaka (Aruṇa) accepted the challenge of King Kāliṅga of Dantapura to war, and defeated him. Later Assaka married Kāliṅga’s daughter and the relations between the two countries were amicable. In the Hāthigumphā Inscription of Khāravela it is related that Khāravela, regardless of King Sātakarṇī, sent a large army to the west (*pachime disam*) to strike terror into Assaka (or Asika) nagara. Law¹⁰ thinks that the Assaka of the *Culla Kāliṅga Jātaka*, the Asikanagara of the Hāthigumphā Inscription and the Assaka of the *Sutta Nipāta* are one and the same place. This would probably be correct if Potana and Potali were regarded as two different cities, capitals of two different settlements having the same name.