88 THE ANTIQUITIES OF MUKHALINGAM. 
Tradition and the Kshetramdhdtmya as well as the appear- 
ance of the village and the inscriptions support this view. 
I said above that there was a village at a distance of about 
two miles, called Nagarikatakavi, which is a place of con- 
siderable importance. The very name implies that it was 
the residence of a king. The town of Cuttack (Kataka), 
meaning royal residence according to Hunter, in Orissa 
can be supposed either to have given its name to this place, 
or to have taken its name from it. Several forts now in 
ruins are said to be in existence in some villages about 
Mukhalingam, such as Lakshminarsupeta, Karakavalasa, 
Pata-Hiramandalam, and Dantavaktrikota. The Rev. J. 
R. Hutchinson, who visited the last mentioned place, has 
given an interesting note on the fort there in his Revised 
List of Antiqxdties , published in the Jommal of this Society 
for the session of 1887-88. The earthen embankment 
of the ancient fort is still in good preservation, from to 
40 ft. high in some parts.' ^ There are references to this 
fort in the Vishnupurdna. In a paper entitled ' the Dakhan 
in the time of G an tarn a- Buddha,' published by the Rev. 
Thomas Foulkes (Ind. Antiq., vol. XVI.), a list of the impor- 
tant cities in Kalinga is given, in which Dantapicra is men- 
tioned. ''The Tooth-relic temple of Dantapura had one or 
more upper stories containing hundreds of rooms : it was 
inlaid with gold, adorned with hanging pearl necklaces, 
diiEcult like the early sun to look at, owing to the radi- 
ance of various gems dazzling the eyes I was told that 
costly jewels and gold coins had been until a few years ago 
discovered by cultivators during the rainy season. Several 
persons, originally poor, are said to have become wealthy 
by such discoveries. There is a village named Daiita in the 
Narasannapeta taluk, now in the possession of a landholder 
whose son told me that he saw in the village a cave, and 
some stone figures aud building materials at its entrance. 
