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Discuss the military activities of Kharavela of Kalinga. Do you think that his reign is significant for military expeditions alone? (1993)

  • UPSC 1993
  • Early State and Society in Eastern India, Deccan and South India

Kharavela, the greatest ruler of the Mahameghavahana dynasty of Kalinga and a contemporary of the Sungas, is known almost entirely through the Hathigumpha inscription — seventeen lines cut in deep Brahmi letters on a natural cavern of the same name on the southern face of the Udayagiri hill near Bhubaneswar. The record opens with a…

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  • The Campaigns Recorded in the Hathigumpha Inscription
  • A Reign of More Than Conquest

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