Jaugada

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Jaugada, ruined fortress, Dist. Ganjam/Orissa/India (19°31'21.2"N; 84°48'44.1"E) Jaugada ("Jaugarh", ancient Samapa) lies 35km north-west of Berampur and 160km south-west of Bhubaneshwar by car. Once a provincial Mauryan fortified capital of the newly conquered province of Kalinga, Jaugada is famed by its version of the monumental stone-cut edicts in Prakrit of the Mauryan emperor Asoka. Despite J.D. Beglar's description during the later 19th century of the extant fortification towers and moat ("The walls had towers, also of earth, at each of the four corners, and also on each flank of each of the eight entrances"), without photos and drawings, the remains are difficult to visualize and comprehend . In 1956 Debala Mitra of the Archaeological Survey of India transected the northern glacis with a trench. The now collapsed trench of this investigation appears to lie just east of the eastern gate of the north wall. This site was first documented in 2001 by a team from the University of Heidelberg.

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Paul Yule, Early Historic Sites in Orissa (Delhi 2006) ISBN 81-89645-44-7