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{{Short description|Royal dynasty ruling over Northern Odisha}}
{{Infobox country
|conventional_long_name = Nagas of Vindhyatabi
|common_name = Nagas
|today = [[India]]
|status =
|status_text =
|government_type = Monarchy
|year_start = {{circa|261}}
|year_end = {{circa|340 CE}}
|event_end =
|p1 = Murunda dynasty
|p2 = Kushan Empire{{!}}Kushanas?
|s1 = Gupta Empire
|s2 = Bhanj dynasty{{!}}Bhanjas
|capital = [[Kendujhar|Vindhyatavi]]
|common_languages = [[Sanskrit]]<br>[[Prakrit]]
|religion = [[Shaivism]] ([[Hinduism]])
|title_leader = ''[[Maharaja]]'', Ranaslaghin
|image_map =
}}
The '''Nagas of Vindhyatabi''' were a royal dynasty ruling over [[Kalinga (historical region)|Northern Odisha]] during the 2nd century A.D to 4th century A.D (possibly between 261 A.D to 340 A.D)<ref name="Bhanja">{{Cite web|url=http://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/bitstream/10603/191656/12/12_chapter%203.pdf|title=ORIGIN, GENEALOGY AND CHRONOLOGY OF THE BHANJAS|website=www.shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in|pages=74, 75|access-date=7 May 2018}}</ref> from their seat at Vindhyatabi, also called Vindhyatavi (identified with modern-day [[Kendujhar|Keonjhar]]).<ref name="imperial">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hRjC5IaJ2zcC|title=Rise and Fall of the Imperial Guptas|last=Agrawal|first=Ashvini|section=Chapter II: THE POLITICAL CONDITION OF INDIA BEFORE THE RISE OF GUPTAS - EASTERN INDIA|section-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hRjC5IaJ2zcC&q=Satrubhanja+Asanpat&pg=PA60|publisher=[[Motilal Banarsidass]]|year=1989|isbn=81-208-0592-5|location=New Delhi|pages=60,61}}</ref>

==History==
This dynasty was probably a branch of the [[Nagas of Padmavati|Naga house]], from which many rulers were descended and who ruled many kingdoms and principalities for the short duration between the fall of the [[Kushan Empire]] and the rise of the [[Gupta Empire]].<ref name="Odishara">{{Cite book|title=Odishara Aithiya|last=|first=|publisher=Vidya Prakashan|year=2011|isbn=978-81-7703-101-0|location=Cuttack|pages=166–185}}</ref> A ruler of this dynasty, Manabhanja with title of ''[[Maharaja]]'', "had added to his glory in a hundred clashes in war with the [[Kushan Empire|Devaputras]]". The ''[[Kushan Empire|Devaputras]]'' mentioned here are obviously the [[Kushan Empire|Kushanas]].<ref name="imperial"/><ref name="pre-Gupta Orissa">{{Cite web|url=http://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/bitstream/10603/187385/7/07_chapter%201.pdf|title=ORISSA IN THE PRE-GUPTA AGE|website=www.shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in|access-date=16 October 2018}}</ref> This suggests that the Nagas of Vindhyatabi joined hands with confederation of Indian rulers, led by the [[Nagas of Padmavati|Bharashiva Nagas]] to overthrow the [[Kushan Empire|Kushan rule]] in India.{{sfn|H. V. Trivedi|1957|p=ii}}{{sfn|R. K. Sharma|2001|p=156}}<ref name="imperial"/>

[[Satrubhanja]] was the greatest and most powerful ruler of this dynasty. He was the son of ''[[Maharaja]]'' Manabhanja and his queen Mahadevi Damayanti. He distributed a huge amount of wealth around a large part of northern, central and eastern India which provides an image of his territorial expanse.<ref name="imperial" /><ref name="pre-Gupta Orissa"/>

==Decline==
Almost no Naga rulers of Vindhyatabi are known after [[Satrubhanja]]. Sitabhinji in Keonjhar district of Odisha has revealed that it was an ancient holy place of [[Shaivism]] promoted by the Naga rulers of [[Kendujhar|Keonjhar]] as the cave arts found there provide a glimpse of a possible descendant of Satrubhanja who went by the name Disabhanja.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.newindianexpress.com/states/odisha/Call-to-Save-Fading-Sitabhinji-Cave-Art/2016/02/15/article3277958.ece|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160216094410/http://www.newindianexpress.com/states/odisha/Call-to-Save-Fading-Sitabhinji-Cave-Art/2016/02/15/article3277958.ece|url-status=dead|archive-date=February 16, 2016|title=Call to Save Fading Sitabhinji Cave Art|last=|first=|date=|website=|publisher=|access-date=}}</ref>

The [[Bhanj dynasty|Bhanjas]] emerged as leading chieftains succeeding the Nagas of the Vindhyatabi in the [[Kendujhar]] and [[Western Odisha]] region, inheriting their territories.<ref name="Sinha Centre for Studies in Social Sciences 1987 p.44 ">{{cite book|last=Sinha| first=S.|author2=Centre for Studies in Social Sciences|title=Tribal polities and state systems in pre-colonial eastern and north eastern India|publisher=Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, K.P. Bagchi & Co.|year=1987|isbn=978-81-7074-014-8|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=S4E_AAAAMAAJ|access-date=2020-04-13|page=44}}</ref><ref name="YoshÄ« 1983 p.53 ">{{cite book |last=YoshÄ«|first=A.|title=History & Culture of Khijjingakotta Under the Bhanjas|publisher=Vikas Publishing House|year=1983|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=M5MeAAAAMAAJ|access-date=2020-04-13|page=5|isbn=9780706914337 }}</ref>

==References==
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=== Bibliography ===

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* {{cite book |author=Ashvini Agrawal |title=Rise and Fall of the Imperial Guptas |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hRjC5IaJ2zcC&pg=PA315 |year=1989 |publisher=Motilal Banarsidass |isbn=978-81-208-0592-7 }}
* {{cite book |author=Dilip Kumar Ganguly |title=History and Historians in Ancient India |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7v76i0eF9tQC&pg=PA28 |year=1984 |publisher=Abhinav |isbn=978-0-391-03250-7 }}
* {{cite book |author=R. K. Sharma |chapter=Ancient history of the Naga tribe of Central India |editor=A. A. Abbasi |title=Dimensions of Human Cultures in Central India: Professor S.K. Tiwari Felicitation Volume |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jUwFL3IipK0C&pg=PA143 |year=2001 |publisher=Sarup & Sons |isbn=978-81-7625-186-0 }}
* {{cite book |author=H. V. Trivedi |title=Catalogue of the Coins of the Naga Kings of Padmavati |url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.104095 |year=1957 |publisher=Department of Archaeology & Museums, Madhya Pradesh }}
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