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Many of the titles of persons of distinction, now in general use in the 

 province, were introduced at that period, as Sawant, Mangraj, Bar Jenna, 

 Patsahani, Bar Panda, &c. and we have imperfect hints given of offices, 

 dignities, and institutions founded by Raja Anang Bhini Deo, as for instance 

 the sixteen Sawants or great Lords of Orissa, the seventy-two Nijogs or 

 servants, the thirty-six departments of state, &c. which excite additional 

 regret at the slender and imperfect notices left to us of a reign, so pregnant 

 with important changes and arrangements, whose influence may even yet 

 be traced. 



It is said that the Raja could muster 3,00,000 Paiks, but his army ordi- 

 narily consisted of 50,000 foot and 10,000 horse, with 2,500 elephants, at the 

 head of which he was actively employed in chastising the turbulent and 

 maintaining his authority, throughout the widely extended range of his 

 dominions. 



His son Rajeswara Deo reigned thirty-five years and was succeeded A. D. 

 1236 by Raja Karsinh Deo, surnamed Langora, a prince of great celebrity 

 in the annals of Orissa, as well as in its legends and romances. His great 

 personal strength, and skill in athletic exercises, seem to have invested him 

 with a sort of supernatural character in the eyes of his subjects, and popu- 

 lar tradition has exaggerated seme peculiarity in his figure or dress, into the 

 fable of his being provided with a tail, whence is derived the epithet Lan- 

 gora. He is said to have been of a very martial turn, and to have waged a 

 lonsr war to the southward. 



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It was this Raja who built the famous temple of the sun at Kanarak, 

 called by the Europeans the Black Pagoda " thereby, observes the Author 

 of the Ayin Acberi, erecting for himself a lasting monument of fame." The 

 work was executed chiefly under the superintendence of the minister Shi- 

 bai Santra, and is stated to have been completed in the year of the Sacabda 

 1200, answering to 1277 A. D, 



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