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The " five stone images worshipped by Saivites and 
reputed to be of great age," mentioned by Sewell, stand 
in a field close by the larger moand. A small Korila has 
recently been built over two of them. Of the remaining 
three, one is a Naiidi. The others are much defaced. Near 
by, deeply embedded in the earth, are two ling as. There is 
said to be another linga in a field near Chilagam. On the 
edge of the field, in which the above-mentioned images stand 
projecting into the village street, is a massive stone slab, the 
pdnavatta or base of some ancient linga. 
With the exception of two inscriptions, dating back to the 
time of the Mohammadan conquest of the country (A.D, 
1402 or thereabout), nothing of the kind has as yet been 
discovered here. I should, perhaps, make a further exception 
of a huge fragment of stone in the compound of Messrs. 
Arbuthnot & Co. 's agency, which still retains atantalizingly 
small portion of an inscription in old Telugu characters. 
The stone is much chipped and evidently of great age, but 
its secret is gone for ever. 
Chicacole. — This town {Sri Kdkola) is said to have been 
the earliest capital of Kalinga, one of the oldest known 
kingdoms of India. The inhabitants are mentioned by 
Pliny. It is not known when the capital was transferred 
to Kalingapatam. 
Some years ago six copper-plate grants were accidentally 
discovered here, one of which was afterwards lost. The other 
five afford almost the only information known concerning 
the Kalinga rajahs. The substance of these grants may be 
gleaned from Sewell's Lists. Sewell supposes these kings to 
belong to " a dynasty of (Pallava P) fugitives of the Yengi 
family," who are supposed to have conquered Kalinga about 
the beginning of the seventh centuiy. The writer has in 
his possession inscriptions which promise to thi-ow consider- 
able light upon this, together with other interesting ques- 
tions connected with this period in the history of Kalinga. 
