The name of the site in ancient times is not directly attested.
Udayagiri, literally the 'mountain of the sunrise', first appears in
inscriptions of the eleventh century and it is now the name attached to a
small village at the foot of the hill. Some historians have suggested
that the
iron pillar at
Delhi originally stood at Udayagiri.
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If true, the inscription on the pillar shows that Udayagiri was called
Viṣṇupadagiri, the 'hill of Viṣṇu's foot-prints' in the fifth century
CE. This is supported by an inscription in one of the Udayagiri caves
(Cave 19) reporting that the devotee who repaired the shrine 'bows
forever to the feet of Viṣṇu'.
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