Meaning of Orissa | Babel Free

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Former name of Odisha: A state in eastern India.

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“The firſt had conſtantly reſided with his father at Cuttack, the capital of Oriſſa, and the other, with his grandfather at Morſhadabad.”

“THAT as the different Provincial Councils, eſtabliſhed in the ſaid Provinces of Bengal, Bahar, and Oriſſa, had been ever ſince their Eſtabliſhment accuſtomed to refer Cauſes of great Moment and Importance, particularly [...]”

“To the Government of Bengal they had repeatedly announced their determination not to aim at any power or possessions, but what was held in virtue of the Mogul's grants, and confined within the boundaries of Bengal, Bahar, and Orissa.”

“"The languages spoken here are various, as there are Hindoos from every country in India: but the two chief languages in use by those who are resident, are the Orissa and the Telinga. The border of the Telinga Country is only a few miles distant from the Tower of Juggernaut."”

“It is of the fourth and probably least important race of Hindu monarchs of the middle ages, the Gajapatis of Orissa, that I propose to offer an account in this part of my paper; but to render the chapter complete, I shall add a sketch of the history of the province down to the date of the British conquest, A. D. 1803.”

“The English Government has respected the patrimony of Jagannáth not less scrupulously than it has conserved the general religious endowments of Orissa.”

“Although, however, it may possess no special importance in the eyes of the general reader, its every detail is full of interest to those who have passed several years in the province of Orissa, and have learned to appreciate and sympathise with its people.”

“The changes, with which Huen Tsiang makes us familiar, should be duly noted here, for we find that when the Chinese traveller visited Orissa and Ganjam, the rude people of Utkala and Orissa freely flowed into the sea-board tract of Orissa, and the people of Kalinga speaking a Dravidian speech were limited within the confines of the country which has got the designation Andhra Deśa to-day.”

“Such is the way this great rustic poet of Orissa has handled the epic heroes and heroines in his own deeply realistic, flesh and blood manner, with his keen peasant eyes fixed on life close to the earth he lived on, caring little for romantic idealism or philosophical ethics.”

“The ancient Kalinga, the fame of which, at one time, spread over the entire South Asia lies now partly in Andhra and partly in Orissa.”

“Meanwhile new kingdoms had been set up in the Peninsula. In Orissā a great conqueror, Khāravela, appeared in the latter half of the 1st century B.C.; he raided far and wide over India and was a great patron of Jainism; but his empire was short-lived, and we know nothing of his successor.”

“It was under the Ganga rule that the Oriya language as an Oriya vernacular became the dominant medium of communication in Orissa.”

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