Bhubaneswar

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Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A city, the state capital of Odisha, India.

    "Sarala Das of the time of Baja Kapilendra Deva, who flourished in the 16th century A.D., sets down Bhubaneswar as the northern limit of Oḍra or Orissa, in his Oriya Mahabharat. Even the poet Dina Kṛṣṇa Das of the 16th century makes Puri alone identical with Orissa."

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"Sarala Das of the time of Baja Kapilendra Deva, who flourished in the 16th century A.D., sets down Bhubaneswar as the northern limit of Oḍra or Orissa, in his Oriya Mahabharat. Even the poet Dina Kṛṣṇa Das of the 16th century makes Puri alone identical with Orissa."

Etymology

From Odia ଭୁବନେଶ୍ୱର (bhubaneśwara).

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