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==History== |
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The region known as Kalinga (present-day Odisha) was controlled by the [[Odia people|Odia]] rulers [[Eastern Ganga Dynasty|Eastern Gangas]] of the [[Vasistha]] gotra. The early Eastern Gangas ruled from Kalinga-nagara (Mukhalingam near [[Srikakulam]], Andhra Pradesh). They shifted their capital to Cuttack in the 13th century. Religious leader [[Ramanujacharya]] had a great influence on the Raja Choda Ganga Deva, who renovated the temple at [[Puri]]. Narasingha Deva built the [[Sun Temple]] at [[Konark]]. The Gangas were succeeded by the Gajapati rulers. Two copper plates of the early Pallava dynasty have been found in the Kolleru Lake, traced to Gajapati Langula Narasimha Deva, an Oriya ruler (Odia Raja/Oddiya Raja). According to legend, the Gajapati fort was located at Kolleti Kota on one of the eastern islands of the lake, which protected the [[Odia people|Odia]] forces. The enemy general encamped at Chiguru Kota located on the shores and tried to excavate a channel in the modern-day Upputeru, so that the water of the lake would empty into the sea and allow an attack on the Gajapati fort. |
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The Gajapatis of Odisha, at the height of their power in the 15th century, ruled over an empire extending from the [[Ganges]] in the north near [[Hooghly district|Hoogly]] to the [[Cauvery]] in the south under Gajapati Kapilendra Deva.<ref>''A History of South India'', [[K.A. Nilakanta Sastri]]</ref>{{full citation needed|date=June 2020}} But by the early 16th century, the Gajapatis lost great portions of their southern dominion to [[Vijayanagara Empire|Vijayanagar]] and [[Golconda]]. This period was marked by the influence of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu and by the expansion of Jaganatha temple across the length and breadth of the empire. One of the causes of the reduction in militarism of the population has been attested to the Bhakti movement initiated by Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, who arrived in the empire at the time of Emperor Prataparudra and stayed for 18 long years at Puri.{{citation needed|date=April 2020}} Emperor Prataparudra was highly influenced by the works of Chaitanya and gave up the military tradition of the Odia emperors.{{citation needed|date=April 2020}} He retired himself into the life of an ascetic leaving the future of the empire uncertain. Govinda Vidyadhara took the opportunity to murder the sons of the emperor and usurped the throne himself and carved out the destruction of the once mighty empire.{{citation needed|date=April 2020}} |
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