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INCRIPTIONS OF THE KALACHURIS OF TRIPURI
in the Goharwa plates also. Their identification has, therefore, been already discussed.
Kulāñchā, the town founded by the sage Kāchara, is evidently identical with Kōlāñcha,
Krōdāñchi or Krōdāñja met with in epigraphic records ranging in date from the tenth to
the twelfth century A.C., which have been discovered in the modern States of Uttar
Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Orissa and Madhya Bharat.1 From the statements in these records
the place seems to have been a stronghold of the Brāhmaņas of Śāņdilya gōtra, most of
whom belonged to the Sāmavēda. According to the tradition recorded in the Kulapañjikās
of the Rādhī and Vārēndrī Brāhamaņas, five ancestors of these Brāhmaņas came to Bengal
from Kōlāñcha at the invitation of the king Ādiśūra for the performance of a Vedic sacrifice.
The present inscription shows that the place was also the home of the Kāyasthas. In a
copper-plate inscription from Assam the village is said to have been situated in Śrāvastī.2 Rao Bahadur K.N. Dikshit identifies it with Kulanch in the Bogra Distict of North Bengal.3
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1Mr. J. C. Ghosh mentions six such charters, Ind. Cul., Vol. II, pp. 358-59. To them I add the
Khala copper-plate grant of the Kalachuri Sōdhadēva, below, No. 74,. I have shown that in 1. 44 of
that inscription the correct reading is Kulāñchīya (i.e., of Kulāñcha). It is note worthy that the Brāhmaņa Jālu, mentioned therein as hailing from Kulāñcha, belonged, like other Brāhmaņas of that place, to the Śāņdilya
gōtra and the Sāmavēda.
2Padmanatha Bhattacharya, Kāmarūpa-śāsanāvali, P. 155. This Śrāvasti was probably situated in
Bengal, for the family, to which the minister of Karna belonged, is called Gauda in verse 32 of the
Ratanpur stone inscription of Jājalladēva I (below, No. 77).
3Ep. Ind., Vol. XXIII, P. 103.
4From inked estampages.
5The inscription seems to have opened with for the temple where it was put up
was dedicated to Śiva. See above, p. 266.
6Metre. Sragdharā.
7Restore
8Metre : of this and the following verse: Śārdūlavikrīdita.
9Metre : Āryā.
10Metre : Anushţubh.
11The starred aksharas in rectangular brackets in lines 3-18 are supplied from the Goharwa plates
of Karņa (above, No. 50).
12Metre: Vasantatilaka.
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