The Indian Analyst

No.

Findspot

Dynasty

King

Date

Language
and
Alphabet

Remarks

 

ORISSA—contd.

 

 

 

 

 

62

Mr. K.C. Phnigrahi, Curator, Orissa Provincial Museum, Bhuvanesvar, through Dr. D.C. Sircar. (Findspot : Banpur)

Śailōdbhava    .           .

Madhyamarāja .          .           .           .           .

….

Sanskrit in early
East Indian Characters.

An incomplete record, the text of which stops abruptly, only half a line of writing having been engraved on the third plate. Issued from Vijaya-Kōṅgōdā-vāsaka. The king is given the epithet, atula-śaśāṅka-dhavalaḥ. The record stop at the point where the document begins to be addressed to the mahā-sāmanta and other officials of Kōṅgōdamaṇḍala. Ibid., pp. 32 ff. and Plate.

63

            Do. (Findspot : Do.)   .           .

Bhauma-Kara              .

Daṇḍimahādēvī                     .           .           .           .

Saṁvat 180, Solar eclipse.

            Do.      .           .

Issued from Guhēśvarapāṭaka. Registers the gift made by the queen of the village of Sāntīra-grāma together with Kōm-yōsaṅga free of all taxes and inclusive of certain specified privileges in favour of Bhaṭṭa Mā[ṇi*]kyadēva, son of Jālladēva and grandson of Purushōttama, who was a resident of Dharmapāṭṭi having migrated from Takārī and who was of the Bhāradvāja gōtra, Vājasanēya charana
and Mādhyandina śākhā. The donated village is stated to have been situated in Pachhama-khaṇḍa of Tamura-vishaya in Dakshiṇa-Tōsalī and the gift was made at the request of Rāṇaka śrībhṛid-Apsarōdēva, lord of Yamagartā-maṇḍala. Published in Epigraphia Indica, Vol. XXIX, p. 79 ff

64

Mr. P. Acharya, Baripada, Mayurbhanj State, through Dr. D. C. Sircar.

Bhañja .           .           .

Mahanmad-Āhavabhañja        .           .           .                      

Year 3             .           .           .

Sanskrit in Nāgarī       .

Records the gift, made by the king, of the village of Mōkugagrāma in Phaṁsarā-vishaya to Kalasarma son of Pālaka, in the name of God Śaṅkarabhaṭṭāraka. (Ep. Ind., Vol.XXX, No. 37.)

65

Do. (Findspot : Bolagarh).      .           .

….

….

….

Old Telugu      .           .

Indistinct and indifferently engraved.

66

District Magistrate, Puri, through Mr. G.
S. Ramanathan. (Findspot : Puri)

Eastern Gaṅga                        .

Narasiṁhadēva IV      .           .           .           .

Śaka 1316, 22nd
Aṅka, Vriśchika
śu. 1., Tuesday = 1394 A.C., November 3, Tuesday, f.d. t. ∙46.

Sanskrit in Nāgarī
and Oriya.

The fifth plate of the set in missing. Registers the gift made by the king, while in camp at Vārāṇasī-Kaṭaka, of the villages of Śāisō and Rāḍasō in Madanakheṇḍa-vishaya of Athakheṇḍa Kōshthā dēśa to the Brāhmaṇa Dēvaratha-Āchārya of Ātrēya gōtra, Kāṇva śākhā and Yajurvēda. Published in J. A. S. B., Vol. LXIV (1895), pp. 128 ff. (grant B). Epigraphia Indica, Vol. XXVIII, pp. 302 ff.

67

Mr. K. C. Panigrahi, Curator, Orissa Provincial Museum, Bhuvanesvar, through Dr. D. C. Sircar. (Findspot : Nagari)

Do.      .           .           .

Anaṅga-Bhīma III     .           .           .           .

(i)Śaka 1151, Chaitra
śu. 9, Saturday,
M ī n a-saṅkrānti= 1230 A.C., February  23, Saturday.
(ii) Next year (i.e.
Śaka 1152), Māgha
ba. di. 6 Thursday =
1230 A.C., Decem-
ber 26, Thursday.
(iii) Same year,
Mārgaśira śu. di. 15,
Lunar eclipse =

Sanskrit in Proto-
Bengali.

Registers several grants made on different dates by the king. Of these the first was made while he was in camp at AbhinavaVārāṇasīkaṭaka, of land to the extent of 20 vāṭis in Purāṇagrāma and 10 vāṭis in Jayanagara-grāma of Sāīlō-vishaya to Pandita Saṅkarshaṇānandaśarman of the Ghṛita-Kauśika
gōtra and Kāṇva śākhā of the Yajurvēda. The other gifts made by the king to some other donees on the different dates noted were from different camps. Published in Epigraphia Indica, Vol. XXVIII, pp. 235 ff. and Plates. 




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