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History confirms- a massive population existed in the Prachi / Tosali / Dhauli / Bhubaneswar /
Kumari Parbata valley. History of
Asoka speak of a massacre in hundreds of thousands and capture in more numbers, which clearly indicates the presence of a Mahajannapada (great population) with enough Knowledge and Prosperity to attract LORD
BUDHA, MAHAVIRA & thereafter Asoka in 261 BC.
And water has always held the secret to great
civilizations. History of KALINGA confirm the knowledge of sophisticated and time tested water resource management system those days (2 C.BC & beyond).
Interestingly at present (2001 A.D) we foresee an acute shortage of water around this valley while the 4th C.BC system still exists and (may be) functional in places (was function even after 300 years,
Kharavela).
So I look at the word- TANUSALAYAPATTA- as a system to manage water-- for the whole City / Kingdom was definitely
put in place by common (not Royal) people. And in a very common vernacular, the breakup of the word. |
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AS IN KALINGA HISTORY
1. Built by Mahapadmananda 300 years before the 5th year of
Kharavela's Coronation.
2. Renovated by Kharavela in his fifth year of Coronation.
3. A Jalla Pranalli or
Aqua duct.
4. Some Historians refer to it as a place from where the water came.
5. Some historians refer to it as a place by the side of which the water came.
6. Till date not located (by history).
7. Hence not studied and made use of.
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TANU-SALYA-PATTA/BATTA........we get the meaning as "From/ On Body-Surgical-Waterway". Where body can mean body of cave, body of wall, body of mountain, body of earth
itself (aqua duct).
And with this do we still do not see the "TANUSALYA
PATTA" on Kumari Parbata (Khandagiri & Udayagiri hills, Bhubaneswar). |