The History Of Kalinga

Introduction The name of chakraborty emperor Ashoka was also assaociated with kalinga .The Ashoka was a great emperor of a world famous and powerful mourya dynasty of India.Ashoka ruled entire India but kalinga was the only area he could not rule.Kalinga was a region where ashoka fought battles and changed his heart and spirit.Kalinga has been known by many names from ancient times to medival times,the region was known as kalinga,utkal,utkarat,od,odesh,chedi,odrastra,trikalinga,dakshina,kalinga,kaushal,tashali,gangodh,and mats.After the middle ages,this region was known as odisha.

History of Kalinga In ancient times most of the orissa was known as kalinga.Emperor Ashoka conquered kalinga in 268 BC.After seeing terrible bloodshed in the war, he finally embraced the buddhism.Emperor Ashoka also promoted buddhism and his inscriptions at various places.Emperor Ashoka wanted to preach buddhism in kalinga.Therefore in many caves,they made many sculptures and inscriptions of buddhism.He ruled kalinga for sometime after his death in 232 BC.But the chedi dynasty ruled dynasty kalinga from 185 B.C.King kharavela,the ruler of chedi dynasty sat on the throne in 49BC.During his reign he started spreading jainism in different ways.One of which is also udayagiri and khandgiri caves in orissa.In these idols releted to jainism have been found.57 kings ruled orissa after the chedi dynasty.And in 458 BC Mahthar Dynasty ,Rule of Nal dynasty began in 500AD.Lord Vishnu was worshipped more during the Nal Dynasty,So the king of Nal dynasty vishnu BIhar in Odisha.Nala dynasty was followed by vigraha and mudgal dynasty.Maharani Mohini Devi of shivakhardev also built the Mohini temple in bhubaneswar.Ganesha temple were rebuilt on udayagiri and khandagiri hills during the reign of King shantighar -1.He also built a buddhist monastry on Dholagiri hills.Rana Hira Mahadevi built temples of 60 yoginis at a place Hirapur in 8th A.D. Rise of Kalinga Empire 6th Century to 8th century is considered to be best for kalinga kingdom.Because, during this century kings built many temples from time to time.From this it seems the king of kalinga and people have more faith in god.Such as swarna jaleshwar Mandir,Rameshwar Mandir,Lakshamaneshwar Mandir,Bharteswar Mandir,Shatrugnasewar mandir and Parosoneshwar Mandir are available.Mahashiva Gupta ,King of Soma dynasty from medival times.was as throne in 931 AD.Temples of Lord Jaganath were built,to make history of Kalinga proud. 38 temples like Muketeshwar temple,Siddeshwar temple,Varuneshwar temple,Kedareshwar temple,Vetal temple,sisreshwar temple,markendeshwar temple,Barahi temple,Kicha keswari temple etc.By the end of 15 th century this dynasty began started ti weaken and in 1038 AD.they defeated somavanshi and established their supremacy over kalinga .During this time, He built many small and big temples like Linga Raja temple,Radha Rani temple,Maheswar temple,Loknath temple,Gundicha temple.The ganga dynasty ruled kalinga for three centuries and its reign bhaskareswar temple,rameshwar temple ,Kotitheertheswar temple,Anatha vasudev temple,chiratkani temple,anantha vasudev temple,chitrakani temple,naili mahadev temple,sobhaneshwar temple ,Daksha Prapati temple,somanth tem[le, and built jagananth temples.All these temples are very important in the history of kalinga.

Inscription of kalinga empire We know about kalinga empire fromTukmas inscription.Which was discovered on merapi hills.It uses ancient sanskrit language and pallavi script.This ancient inscription describes the beauty of the ancient huge waterfall of kalinga.At the same time, it's water has been connected to the river ganges.During the kalinga people used more brahami script.WHich is a mixture of sanskrit and pallava language.In these articles a mug of water,a axe,a shell, alotus flower, a picture of god and godesses.