Today is the coronation anniversary of SAMRAT #KAPILENDRADEVA ROUTRAY, a Suryavanshi #Khandayat Emperor and a great Hindu warrior. He was a son of Odisha who terrorized the sultanates of Bengal, Jaunpur, Malwa, Bahamani and Delhi, and established a sovereign Hindu empire.
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Khandayat /Raja Brajasundar Deva of Aul (Aali) Khanda performed fearless tiger stunts with his circus in Kolkata, 1918. A descendant of Chalukya Gajapati Mukunda Deva Harichandan Raju Mohapatra.
Khandayat warriors also used bows and arrows, spears, lances, and other weapons. Had the name been weapon-based, they would instead have been called Dhanayat or Bhalayat or Barchhyat.
The Santaka (Royal Insignia or Sign Manual) of Khandayats :
The way Khandayat kings of the past used the Sword as their Sign Manual, evident from their sculptures. Examples include the sculptural depictions of Gajapati Rout Kapilendra Deva, Gajapati Rout Langula Narasimha 1/N
a Mukhya Khandayat (sovereign ruler/emperor).This is corroborated by numerous inscriptions & medieval texts.
2. Khanda as Santaka/Sign Manual : The Khandaits bore the khanda as their santaka,or royal insignia.Yet the title ‘Khandayat’ does not originate from wielding the Khanda
period, terrified of the Sultan of Delhi& defeated powerful sultans like those of Malwa,Gauda, Bahmani,&Jaunpur. He built a vast Hindu empire stretching from the Ganga River& Santal Pargana in the north and east, to some parts of Maharashtra, Karnatak,& Tamil Nadu in the south.
He is the king of kings, which means the Khandayat of the Khandayats. Today is the 591st coronation day of Gajapati Kapilendra Deva Routray, the great Hindu Kshatriya emperor of India born in Odisha. Kapila Rout, one of the greatest Hindu emperors and warriors of the medieval 1/1
The Brahmins performed various Vedic rituals, yajnas, as well as marriages, upanayana, and other pujas for the Kshatriyas. This tradition continues even now. 2/2 End.
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The Kshatriya-Brahmin jajmani relationship is very ancient. Since the Khandayats ruled over various khanda-kshetras, many old inscriptions provide evidence that in earlier times, within the different khanda-kshetras under their rule, they granted land to Brahmins. 1/2
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Khandayat: Tadbhava Word of Kshatriya and A Kshatriya person who rules over various Khand-Kshetras.
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Padmacharan Rout of Indus village in Jajpur. His elder son Sriharsha was an Assistant Manager at Rourkela Steel Plant, and his younger son Udayan went to London for higher education. End .
Today is the birth anniversary of the great freedom fighter and renowned poet Sachi Routray. He was born on 13 May 1916 in a Kshatriya Khandayat family in Gurujang village, Khordha district. His family were the traditional "Astra Gurus" of the Gajapatis....
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Sachi Routray married the princess of Golapalli in Andhra Pradesh. He had two sons & two daughters. His elder daughter Manjushree was married to Prashant Rout from a Zamindar family, who was settled in London. His younger daughter Chitra was married to Rabi,the younger son of 2/N
Meaning of Mahalayak : The synonyms of #Khandayat are King, Mahalayak, and Bhupati, according to the eastern Indian ruling system. Khandayat is a tadbhav word, derived from the Sanskrit word #Kshatriya, and Khanda-Kshetras are frequently mentioned in many inscriptions of ...1/N
The holders of these Khandaiti Mahals (Estate/ State ) were probably called Mahalayak. Another mention of Mahalayak is found in the Madalapanji, where the Raja of Tigiria was called Mahalayak & other kings are mentioned as Khandayatas, a synonym for Kings. The Khandayats were 4/9