Jaugada ("Jaugarh", ancient Samapa]) is a ruined fortress near Berhampur city in Ganjam district of Odisha, India. Jaugada lies 35 km north-west of Berhampur and 160 km south-west of Bhubaneshwar. It is around 8 km from the famous Tara Tarini shakti peeth (Sthana Peetha) on the banks of Rushikulya.
Jaugarh", ancient name Samapa or Sampa was the capital of the great Kalinga rulers for thousand of year (Since Ramayana to Ashoka) and it was a provincial Mauryan fortified capital of Ashoka, of his newly conquered province of Kalinga at 2061 B.C.
It is believed that Ashoka Ruined this great capital after Kalinga war and destroyed the shrine of its Ista Devi Tara Tarini.
Jaugada is famed by its version of the monumental stone-cut edicts in Prakrit of the Mauryan emperor Ashoka.
This site was first documented by a team from the University of Heidelberg (Germany).
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