Kharavela
The Indian conqueror Kharavela (* around 209 BC (?); † after 170 BC (?)) Was the third king from Kalinga (today Odisha ) of the Chedi dynasty.
His deeds are only known from the Hathigumpha inscription in the Jain monastery complex of Udayagiri near Bhubaneswar . The point in time of the rise of this dynasty and the neighboring Shatavahana dynasty (whose king Satakarni is mentioned in his inscription) does not seem to have been definitively clarified; it was either analogous to the fall of the Maurya empire (around 185 BC) or not until in the middle of the first century BC King Kharavela is said to have thrown back the Greek conquerors and conquered the Shunga capital Pataliputra in his twelfth year of reign . From Pataliputra he brought a statue back to Kalinga, which the Nanda King Mahapadma had kidnapped from his country some 300 years earlier. He appears to have resigned in his 13th year in office. Kharavela was a follower of Jainism . He also allowed music and dance again, both of which were forbidden in the Maurya period. A son named Kudepasiri ruled after him, then the empire seems to have fallen into disrepair due to a lack of state cohesion.
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| SURNAME | Kharavela |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | third king from the Kalinga (now Orissa ) of the Chedi dynasty |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 209 BC Chr. |
| DATE OF DEATH | after 170 BC Chr. |