Bhubaneswar

Proper noun

Bhubaneswar

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.1925, B. C. Mazumdar, Orissa In The Making, University of Calcutta, pages 68-69
   • The recorded history of Orissa begins practically from Ashoka who renounced war as a state policy on the battle field near about the present Bhubaneswar after he had won the battle.1964, Nabin Kumar Sahu, Utkal University History Of Orissa, volume 1, The Utkal University, page 5