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The inscription supplies the new word timmira which is not found in published copperplates, in the phrase dradasa-timmira-pramana, 1. 44. Perhaps " timira " is the correct spelling. The new verses of the inscription, which are not found in the Buguḍa plates, contain nothing of importance. I could only infer from them that the kingdom of Madhyamaraja contained all sorts of hermits (vv. 12 and 13). There is no mention of the doings of the king. We may gather, however, that he was a man of great strength (v. 17), a capable archer comparable to the son of Pritha (i.e. Arjuna) (v. 16) and an ardent devotee of Siva (vv. 14 and 15). The inscription is dated twice: 1st, in the regnal year twenty-six: shaḍ-vinsatimē vijaya-varddhamana-rajye (1. 45) and again at the end, in an era which has not been specified. The letters on the third plate have suffered very much from corrosion and the numerals of the date have become very indistinct. I find on prolonged examination that the numerals are 80, 8, but Messrs. Venkayya and Krishna Sastri to whom the paper was first submitted are of opinion that nothing whatever can be discovered. If my reading of the date be correct, I would refer it to the Harsha era, though no instance of the use of this era has so far been found in Orissa. If my views be correct, the date of the grant would be 88+606-694 A.D.
Up to this date three inscriptions of the Sailödbhava dynasty of the Kōngōda-mandala bave been published:-The Buguḍa plates of Madhavavarman; (2) the Ganjam plates of the time of Sasankaraja, and (3) the Khurda plates of Madhavarāja.5
The first part of the inscription on the Parikud plates is in verse, like that of the Buguda plates of Madhavavarman, and the first nine verses of both are identical. The tenth verse of the Buguḍa grant is not to be found in this record and the eleventh verse of that record appears as the tenth of the Pärikud inscription. The Buguḍa grant furnishes the genealogy of the family from Rapabhita to Sainyabhita, while the Parikud grant carries the genealogy two generations further.
The following tables show the genealogy according to the Buguḍa and Parikud grants :
Pärikud plates. Sailödbhava (in his family)
1 Rapabhita
Buguda plates. Sailedbhava (in his family) Rapabhita 1 Sainyabhita I. (in his family)
Yasobhita
I
Madhavavarman Sainyabhita II.
Sainyabhita I. (in his family) T Yasobhita I.
I Sainyabhita II. Yasobbita II. 1
Madhyamarja.
1 [From the accompanying photo-lithographic plate it will be clear that the date is here very badly damaged. What is seen is a circle which may denote 20. It is, just possible that the regnal year of the king is simply repeated in numerical symbols preceded probably by the word samvatsare.-V. V.]
Above, Vol. VI, pp. 143 ff.
J. 4. 8. B., Vol. LXXIII, Pt. I, 1904, pp. 282 .
It may have been imported from Northern India as was the Gupta era in the case of the date of the Ganjam plates of the time of Sasanka; above Vol. VI, p. 148. [Palæography is hardly in favour of this early date. Professor Kielhorn thought that the Buguda plates, which are earlier, may belong to the 10th century; see above, Vol. VII, p. 102.-S. K.]
Above, Vol. III, pp. 41 ff. and Vol. VII, pp. 100 ff. and plate.
