Jaugada

Jaugada, the ancient Samapa, is a ruined fortress in Ganjam district, 35 kilometres north-west of Brahmapur and 160 kilometres south-west of Bhubaneswar. It was a fortified Mauryan provincial capital in the newly conquered province of Kalinga, and it is famous for its version of Ashoka's stone-cut edicts in Prakrit. Major Rock Edicts 1 to 10 and 14, together with Separate Edicts 1 and 2, were cut around 250 BCE on a central rock in the compound, an arrangement like that of the Dhauli edicts.

In the late 19th century J.D. Beglar described earthen walls with towers at every corner and on each side of eight entrances, along with a moat, but the remains are hard to make out on the ground today. In 1956 Debala Mitra of the ASI cut a trench through the northern glacis. The site lies near the Kaleswar and Rameswar Shiva temple, known as a place where Shiva and Vishnu are seen together.