Toshali Sands

Urshin or Ursfin or Urdavisau. Tibetan form is Odivisa .Muslim chronicler Shamsi-Siraj-Afif, called it JajanagarUdissa. In Simhachalam votive inscription it is Odya desa. In 15th century records Odissa wa~ mentioned. In Sarala Mahabharata it is Odarastra or Odissa rastra. The extent of Odra rastra remained changing. The Chinese pilgrim Yuan Chwang called it U-cha, while it was Odi or Otivisa in the Pag SamJon Zang, the famous Tibetan text. Orissa legislative assembly.

Provincial Legislature which came into being after the election in January 1937 with 60 seats .Later seats were increased to 147.The assembly functioned in the Ravenshaw college hall and later on shifted to its premises in capital Bhubanesvara. Oriya language. Derived from Purva Magadhi which itself was the product of Astro-Asiatic Mundari, Dravidian and Aryan (Sanskrit) languages. Purva Magadhi is a form of Prakruta. Udra-Prakuta language was used in the cave inscription of Kharevela. In Bharat’s Natyasastra the language is called Udra-bibhasa.Baudhagana duha or Charyagiti reflect the beginAing of oriya language. Inscriptions from 10th century witness the evolution of Oriya language and letters. Oriya Lipi- An offshoot of Brahmi lipi - distinctly