Any person born in Odisha will at once say that my motherland is Odisha. But this South-eastern state of Odisha was also, in the past, known as  Utkal, Kalinga and Udra. Utkal is the most ancient name among the above four names.

            All these names bear special meanings, connotations and hereditary cultural  ingredients.

            Utkal, being the most ancient name may be discussed first. Dhruba was the son of Uttanapad who was the son of Manu. Dhruba’s eldest son was named as Utkal. Again Atri and Anasuya’s son was Soma (Chandra-Vansa) and his son was Sudyumna. Sudyumna had three sons namely Utkal, Gaya and Bimal. The countries ruled by the three, were named as such. This Utkal was roughly may be, the north-eastern portion of present day Odisha during that period.

            This is the earliest part of Satya-Yuga of this Baibaswata-Manwantara. Next comes the name of Kalinga. Jajati was the seventh descendant of Atri. Jajati had two wives namely Devjanee and Sharmistha. Sharmistha had three sons-Druhyu, Anu and Puru. Anu’s eleventh descendant was Bali who had six sons namely Anga, Banga, Kalinga, Sumha, Pundra and Andhra. The whole of South-eastern part of the then Bharatvarsha was divided among those six sons and the portions given to them were named after them. Thus the countries Anga (Bihar), Banga (Bengal), Kalinga (the Southern part of present Odisha), Andhra (Telegudessam), Sumha  (Tamil Nadu) and Pandya (South-west portion of Tamil Nadu) were according to the rulers of those kingdoms.

            The time of Kalinga may be the last part of Satya-Yuga.

            Now, so far as the time-calculation on scientific basis is concerned, ‘NASA’ of USA fixes Ram-Setu’s date as seventeen lakhs and fifty thousand years B.C.

            Ram’s incarnation was towards the end of Treta-Yuga. As such, Kalinga’s time may be taken as 35 lakh years B.C.