Kalinganagara, Kalinga-nagara, Kaliṅganagara, Kalimganagara: 6 definitions
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Source: Wisdom Library: India HistoryKaliṅganagara (कलिङ्गनगर) is the name of an ancient city of the Kaliṅga country, according to Epigraphia Indica, IV, 187. Kaliṅganagara has been identified with Mukhaliṅgam on the river Vaṃśadharā.
Source: archive.org: Geography in Ancient Indian inscriptionsKaliṅganagara (कलिङ्गनगर).—Exact location of Kaliṅga-nagara is uncertain. Generally, It is taken to be identical with Mukhaliṅgam on the Vamsaclhara and the adjacent ruins in Ganjam district. Fleet seems inclined to identify it with Kalingapatam, twenty miles north-east of Srikakulam. Jayaswal identifies the capital of Khāravela with Tosalī. B. B. Lal bas given a new suggestion. According to him, Kaliṅga-nagara of the Khāravela’s inscription may be identical with Sisupalgarh, one and a half mile to the south-east of the town of Bhubaneswar. According to B. M. Barua the city of Kaliṅga is Khibira and it was situated somewhere on the banks of the river Prācī, and not far from Bhubaneswar and the Udayagiri and Khandagiri caves. It may be proposed that the capital of Kaliṅga was located at different places, and the metropolis of this state could as well be Sisupalgarh for sometime, then designated as Kaliṅga-nagara.
The Hathigumpha inscription mentions that Khāravela repaired the buildings, walls and gates in the city of Kaliṅga, which were badly damaged by the stormy wind, raised the embankments of the Isitala tank, and restored all damaged gardens. It also mentions the erection of a royal palace on both the banks of the river Prācī. the palace was built possibly in Kaliṅga-nagafa itself. The record also mentions a canal, which was extended upto the city.
Source: archive.org: Tribes in Ancient IndiaKaliṅganagara (कलिङ्गनगर).—In Khāravela’s Hathigumpha Cave Inscription Kaliṅga finds mention for more than once and it is said that very inscription that in the first year of his reign he repaired the gates and ramparts of his capital Kaliṅganagara identified with Mukhaliṅgam.
Source: What is India: Epigraphia Indica volume XXXI (1955-56)Kaliṅganagara is the name of an ancient city mentioned in the “Grants from Galavalli” (893 A.D.). The main document begins with the Siddham symbol and the usual praśasti of the Early Eastern Gaṅgas in lines 1-11, referring to the issue of the charter from the adhivāsaka (royal residence) at Kaliṅganagara resembling Amarapura (the city of the gods) and to the devotion of the issuer of the grant to the god, Bhagavat Gokarṇasvāmin (Śiva), installed on the peak of Mount Mahendra.
These plates (mentioning Kaliṅganagara) were dug up from the fields of a village in the Bobbili Taluk of the Srikakulam District, Andhra. It records the grant of three villages and is dated Gaṅga year 397 (of the Gāṅgeya dynasty), corresponding to 893-95 A.D. The grant was made in favour of the deity Kauṇḍuka-Guṇḍeśvara.
Source: Ancient Buddhist Texts: Geography of Early BuddhismKaliṅganagara (कलिङ्गनगर) is the name of an ancient capital city of Kaliṅga: a locality situated in Dakkhiṇāpatha (Deccan) or “southern district” of ancient India, as recorded in the Pāli Buddhist texts (detailing the geography of ancient India as it was known in to Early Buddhism).—According to the Mahābhārata the ancient Kaliṅga country seems to have comprised modern Orissa to the south of the Vaitaraṇī and the sea coast southward as far as Vizagapatam and its capital was Rājapura (Śāntiparva, IV). The Hāthigumphā inscription clearly shows that the capital of Kaliṅga during the reign of Khāravela was Kaliṅganagara which has been satisfactorily identified with Mukhalingaṃ on the Vaṃśadharā and the adjacent ruins in Ganjam district, Madras Presidency.
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Kannada-English dictionary
Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpusKāḷiṃganāgara (ಕಾಳಿಂಗನಾಗರ):—[noun] a poisonous black serpent; a black cobra.
Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.
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Partial matches: Kalinga, Nagara, Nakara.
Full-text: Mukhalingam, Kharavela, Nagara, Tanasuliya, Tanasuli, Kalinga, Gokarnasvamin, Dantapura.
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