No. 34.— 1887.] 



POLONNAKUWA. 



signalise the double triumph, that the Hindu Parakrama Bahus were 

 adorning Polonnaruwa. 



Addendum. 



1. General Cunningham, in his " Ancient Geography of India" 

 (p. 517 and map, p. 526), places Dantapura on the Godavery, thirty 

 miles north-east of Koringa, at Raja Mahendri, the present Raja- 

 mundry ; but Fergusson has since indentified it with Purifi 



2. That Sinhapura in Kalinga, the birthplace of Nissarika Malla, was 

 actually under the sway of the Ganga-vansa of Orissa during his time, 

 maybe collected from Stirling's " Account of Orissa " in volume 15 of 

 the " Asiatic Researches." The town of Siyhapura, or at least the town 

 in Kalinga which retains that name, is situated in the hill country of the 

 eastern Ghaats, on the bank of the Nagavelly, some eighty miles from 

 where that river forms an estuary of the sea at Chicacole, which is about 

 fifteen miles west of Kalirigapatam. And the epoch of the Parakrama 

 Bahus of Polonnaruwa was 1153-1186 a.d. Now, Stirling tells us 

 (page 164) that " during the sway of the princes of the Ganga-vansa 

 line, for a period of nearly four centuries (from 1132 a.d. onwards), 

 the boundaries of the Raj of Orissa" extended on the south to " the 

 Godaveri, or Ganga Godaveri," and on the west to " a line drawn 

 through Sinhburu, Sonepur, and Bastar," and, therefore, they included 

 Sinhapura. Again, Raja Anang Bhun Dea, one of the most illustrious of 

 the Ganga-vansa line, ascended the throne of the Gajapatis, 1174 a.d. 



It was he who commenced the great temple of Jaganat in the 

 twelfth year of his reign, and completed it in 1196 a.d. In his speech 

 to the assembled nobles he is recorded as having stated his additions 

 to the Raj to have extended on the south "from the Rassikoilah down 

 to the Dandpat of Rajinandri," and on the west " to the confines of 

 Boad (Bodh) Sonepur." (Ibid, pp. 269-71.) 



3. Light is thrown on the origin of the title Ganga-vansa by the 

 following passage : — "This personage [Chor Ganga, or Churang Deo], 

 whatever his real origin, is fabled to have been the offspring of the 

 goddess Ganga Sana, or the lesser Ganges (Godaveri), by a form of 

 Maha Deo. With him [in 1132 a.d.] began the race of princes called 

 the Ganga-Yansa, or Gangban's line, who ruled the country for about 

 four centuries, a period fertile in great names and events of impor- 

 tance, and which forms unquestionably the most brilliant and 

 interesting portion of Orissa history." {Ibid, p. 267.) 



* " Tree and Serpent Worship." 



