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Uparichara Vasu was a king of Chedi belonging to the Puru Dynasty. He was known as the friend of Indra . During his reign, Chedi kingdom had a good economic system and contained much mineral wealth, which made a lot of merchants around the world, come to the Kingdom.
The Mahameghavahana dynasty (Mahā-Mēgha-Vāhana, 2nd or 1st century BC to early 4th century CE [3] [4]) was an ancient ruling dynasty of Kalinga after the decline of the Maurya Empire. [5] In the first century B.C., Mahameghavahana, a king of Chedirastra (or Cetarattha, i.e., kingdom of the Chedis) [6] conquered Kalinga and Kosala.
According to Hathigumpha Inscription of Kharvela “A branch of Chedis founded as a royal dynasty in the kingdom Kalinga.” [citation needed] By the 6th to 5th centuries BCE, Cedī had become one of the more important states in Iron Age India, due to which the Buddhist text, the Aṅguttara Nikāya , listed it as one of the solasa ...
Ashoka of the Mauryan dynasty conquered Kalinga in the bloody Kalinga War in 261 BCE [48] which was the 8th year [citation needed] of his reign. According to his own edicts , the war about 1,000,000 people were killed, 1,500,000 were captured and several more were affected. [ 48 ]
The opening dedication (Namokar Mantra) and other lines confirm that Jainism was well established in Kalinga, and that this is a Jaina inscription. It mentions the ancient Chedi dynasty of Greater India. [19] Barua interprets the lengths of lines differently; to him, L1 and L2 are the first line. [20] L2
The last ruler of First Kalinga dynasty is said to have broken away from the Danda kingdom along with the kings of Asmaka and Vidarbha as its feudal states, and established rule of Second Kalinga dynasty. Known rulers are-Dandaki; Mahakalinga; Chullakalinga; Kalinga II (c. 7th – 6th century BCE) Other or late Kalinga rulers according to ...
Kuru II, a king of Puru dynasty after whom the dynasty was named 'Kuruvansha' or 'Kaurava'. After his name, the district in Haryana was called as Kurukshetra. This battlefield before the birth of Bhishma, Shantanu and Pratipa was the Yagnabhumi (sacred place or sacrificial place or capital city of Kuru Kingdom) of this King in Dvapara Yuga. By ...
Gangeyadeva (IAST: Gaṅgeyadeva, r. c. 1015–1041 CE) was a ruler of the Kalachuri dynasty of Tripuri in central India. His kingdom was centered around the Chedi or Dahala region in present-day Madhya Pradesh. During the early part of his reign, Gangeyadeva seems to have ruled as a vassal, possibly that of the Paramara king Bhoja.