Sundargargh
Sundargargh -District head quarters - home of mocrolithic men (F.R. Logan:Chipped stones of India p.65)- places like Usakothi and Manikamunda bear rock cut pictures of neolithic en-Usakothi at Lefripada, and Manikamunda in Hemagiri. The Kadamba family ruled’ in Banarayi (Bonai) ex-state. Rourkelais famous for steel plant. Sury -Vedic god -later worshipped as Narayana (Biranchi narayana); surya worship was introduced in Orissa by Kashibat, on of sage Dirghatama ( tradition). Arka ksetra Konark, Buguda in Ganjam and Paliain Balasore are places of Surya worship. Sun cult merged into Vaisnavism at one time.
