The rock inscription Jaugada is situated at Pandia, a small village on the northern bank side of the river Rushikulya, near to Purusottampur town of Ganjam district .The place is famous for its archeological remains belonging to mayuryan period having one of the major rock inscriptions of Asoka, the Great, as like Dahauli of Bhubaneswar., The jaugada inscription is engraved on three different tablets on the vertical face of a granite rock in Prakriti language and Brahmi script.

The Jaugada edict contains the famous doctrine of Asoka, the mantras reads as all men are my children. As I desire for my children that they should enjoy bliss and happiness in the would, the same I desire also for all my men. One who visits Jougada is profoundly impressed by the Asoka’s proclamation of the doctrine that conquest of men’s heart by love and compassion is great than conquest by sword.

Jougada, my theologically associates itself with the Maha Bharata period. Legends say a lac fort (jougado) was built by the kuru prince Duryodhan of Hastinpur for the Pandavas during their exile. J.D.Beglar, the famous archeologist who famous  Jaugada in 1874 A.D has stated that the original name of the place was Jagata. This was subsequently changed into Jaugada or Lac Fort. According to records the fort was built by Raja Keshari, a local king who built the walls of the fort with Lac instead of bricks to resist the enemies’ cannon balls, might bury missiles harmlessly inside. Besides, the slippery walls that could not be scaled by anybody will be an extra advantage from security point of view. Once the king of nearby Rawapali hill fort quarreled with Raja keshari and besieged Jaugada for along time. During the sirge, a milkmaid whose pot was snatched away by one of the soldier, angrily exclaimed that “oh fools you could apply fire to plunder weak people but  you did not Havel the power to occupy a fort made of lac” . Then after the enemies at once set fire to the fort and caused its destruction. The milk woman was then cursedly the Raja for the loss of the fort and was turned into a stature of stone which’s found at the gateway on the south face of the fort.

The present earthen for of Jaugada is in it ruined condition. His fort was originally circumscribed by the depand wide meat, the rampart was built with earth, dug out f the moat itself. Now the fort area is marked with two tanks and the remains of two temples. The excavation at the for area has unearthed materials suhas shell. Bone ,crystals quartz, the punch marked soinss of the Mauryan age, copper and iron object of peace and war and puru-kushana coins at Jaugada and its vicinity.

Jaugada stands as the symbol of historical heritage of Kalinga and a civilization on the bank of river the Rushikulya . Thustheplace is frequented by the scholars, students etc. But it is nonetheless on important site worth visiting by layman which gives a chance to peep through our history , of lately the place has been declared as a protected monument by the archaeological Survey of India  to prohibit  further destruction of the site.