Jaugada

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This article has been extracted from THE IMPERIAL GAZETTEER OF INDIA , 1908. OXFORD, AT THE CLARENDON PRESS.

Note: National, provincial and district boundaries have changed considerably since 1908. Typically, old states, ‘divisions’ and districts have been broken into smaller units, and many tahsils upgraded to districts. Some units have since been renamed. Therefore, this article is being posted mainly for its historical value.

Jaugada

Ruined fort in Ganjam District, Madras, situated in 1 9° 33' N. and 84 degree 50' E., about 18 miles west of Ganjam town, on the north bank of the Rushikulya in the Berhampur taluk, among the remains of what was once a large city surrounded by a wall Towards the centre of the fort is a huge granite mass, on which are inscribed thirteen edicts of the Buddhist emperor Asoka (about 250 b.c). They are of special interest as being the only examples of these edicts in the Madras Presidency. Old pottery and tiles abound within the fort wall ; numbers of copper coins have been found, some of which are assigned to the first century A.D. ; and an old temple has been discovered buried under debris and earth.