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KALINGA, or CALINGA

KALINGA, or CALINGA , one of the nine kingdoms of See also:

SOUTHERN

southern See also:

India in See also:

ancient times. Its exact limits varied, but included the eastern See also:

MADRAS

Madras See also:

COAST (from Lat. costa, a rib, side)

coast from See also:

PULICAT

Pulicat to See also:

CHICACOLE

Chicacole, See also:

RUNNING

running inland from the See also:

BAY

Bay of See also:

Bengal to the Eastern See also:

GHATS, or GHAUTS (literally " the Landing Stairs " from the sea, or " Passes ")

Ghats. The name at one See also:

time had a wider and vaguer meaning, comprehending See also:

ORISSA

Orissa, and possibly extending to the See also:

GANGES (GANGA)

Ganges valley. The Kalinga of See also:

Pliny certainly included Orissa, but latterly it seems to have been confined to the See also:

TELUGU

Telugu-speaking See also:

COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country; and in the time of Hsuan Tsang (63o A.D.) it was distinguished on the See also:

south and See also:

west from Andhra, and on the See also:

north from Odra or Orissa. Taranatha, the Tibetan historian, speaks of Kalinga as one See also:

DIVISION (from Lat. dividere, to break up into parts, separate)

division of the country of Telinga. Hsuan Tsang speaks of Kalinga (" Kie-See also:

LING, PER HENRIK (1776-1839)

ling-kia ") having its See also:

capital at what has been identified with the site either of See also:

RAJAHMUNDRY, or RAJAMAHENDRI

Rajahmundry or See also:

CORINGA

Coringa. Both these towns, as well as Singapur, Calingapatam and Chicacole, See also:

SHARE (O. Eng. scearu, chiefly in compounds, e.g. land-scearu, a share of land, from sceran to cut; cf. " shear" )

share the See also:

HONOUR (Lat. honos or lwnor, honoris; in English the word was spelled with or without the u indifferently until the 17th century, but during the 18th century it became fashion-able to spell the word " honor "; Johnson's and Webster's Dictionaries stereoty

honour of having been the See also:

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief cities of Kalinga at different periods; but See also:

INSCRIPTIONS (from Lat. inscribere, to write upon)

inscriptions recently deciphered seem to prove that the capital of the Ganga See also:

DYNASTY (Gr. &vvaareta, sovereignty, the position of a hevnori7r, lord, ruler, from SuvaaBay to be able, Suvaµas, power)

dynasty of Kalinga was at Mukhalingam in the See also:

GANJAM

Ganjam See also:

DISTRICT

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