Calingae

The Calingae or Calingi, according to ancient accounts, were a race of extremely short-lived people in India.

This has been viewed as exaggeration, akin to Pliny's report that the Mandi people of India bear children at age seven.

[c][4] The area of diffusion is thought to roughly coincide with the Northern Circars (now spanning the states of Andhra Pradesh and Odisha).

Their chief cities were Dandagula (Dandaguda) and Parthalis (Protalis).

[5] According to political scientist Sudama Misra, the Kalinga janapada originally comprised the area covered by the Puri and Ganjam districts.