Samasingha

Samasingha lies on the Bheden river in the Hirakhand country of western Odisha. A palace of the Haihaya rulers once stood on the river bank, and the kingdom's gateway was guarded by a horn that sounded alarms in time of invasion. The king also built a Shiva temple at Mahadevpali on the bank. Valleys, woodland and streams around the village supplied varied resources.

The Haihaya kingdom ended in a dispute over marriage. The king of Ratnapur, in Surguja, attacked after the marriage of the Haihaya king's only daughter; in the fighting the Haihaya king was killed and his kingdom destroyed. Local tradition adds that the king's wives died on the bank of the Bheden.