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(in the plural) name of a people and their country (the name is applied in the पुराणs to several places, but especially signifies a district on the Coromandel coast, extending from below Cuttack to the vicinity of Madras)
name of a king of कलिङ्ग (from whom the कलिङ्ग people are said to have originated ; he is sometimes mentioned as a son of दीर्घतमस् and सुदेष्णा, sometimes identified with बलि)