Kalinga (India)
Kalinga was a kingdom in eastern central India , which roughly encompassed the area of today's Odisha and the northern parts of the adjoining Andhra Pradesh . The largest city in the Kalingas area was Sisupalgarh . It was a fertile area that stretched west from Damodar to Godavari and the Bay of Bengal . The capital of the kingdom was Toshali .
In this area, Ashoka ruled around 261 BC. Chr. The Kalingakrieg . Kalinga is mentioned in the Mahabharata .
The Kalinga script goes back to the Brahmi script and developed further to the Oriya script , which originated around 1000. Because of the close connection to the Brahmi script, this is the one within the Indian group of writings that comes closest to the Brahmi script.
See also
literature
- Martin Brandtner: Kalinga and its capital in prehistoric times. To change the meaning of a geographical and ethnic name. Diss. Univ. Heidelberg. Kovač, Hamburg 2000. ISBN 3-8300-0190-8
Web links
Commons : Kalinga - collection of images, videos and audio files
Footnotes
- ↑ Megasthenes Indica ( Memento of the original from December 10, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. and (Megasthenes fragm. LVI. in Plin. Hist. Nat. VI. 21. 8-23. 11.) Megasthenes Indica ( Memento of the original from December 10, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original dated May 12, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
