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FOUR BHANJA COPPER-PLATE GRANTS.
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H grants a village named Ratangal in the Vasudēvakhanda-vishaya to a number of Aguiho. trins belonging to the Kausika- and Vatsa-yotras. The plate I grants a village named Mach. chhadagrāma of the Mächhädakhanda to another donee of the Vataya götra. These two records do not give either the residence of the donees or the place whence their forefathers came, nor do they state the occntion on which they were granted. They state as usual that the gifts were made for increasing the religious merits of the king's father, mother and self. They do not refer to any date whatsoever, but simply say that they were issued at the king's own order and written by the Minister for pence and war, in the case of H by Savaraja and in the case of I by Kubēra. Both were incited by a goldsmith (akshasalika) named Durgadēva. The seal in H was affixed by Mämmi, apparently a short form of Mahāmāyā (the queen) and in I a lady, named Jachchhika of the noble family. The messenger for H was Bhatta Sumangala, but the name of that in I is not legible.
The charter J was issued by Mahārāja Vidyadharabhañjadēva, surnamed Amõgha kalasa, son of Silabhañjadēva, grandson of Digbhañjadēva and great-grandson of Raṇabhañjadēva. It was issued from the ancestral capital Vañjalpaka and records the grant of a village named Mülamāchhāda (i.e., Māchhāda proper) situated in the Māchhadakhanda-vishaya to Bhatta Purandara, an emigrant from Manmāņā, situated in the district Taqisama-vishaya in Vsrebdhi' (province). In this case as in the previous two, the gift was made for increasing the religious merit of the donor and his parents and bears no date. The record was composed by Stambh, the Minister for peace and war, and incised by the goldsmith Kumārachandra, and the seal was affixed by Trikalinga-Mahadēvi, on the record being apparently presented by the Prime Minister Bhatta Kēgavedēva. One Chichika is recorded as the värgulika which appears to be an alternative term for dūtaka or messenger. All these names occur in plate F except the last, with a medley of offices, which throw a doubt on its genuineness, but this is Busceptible of being explained, as would appear later on. The last charter K was issued in the 3rd year of the king's reign) on the 11th day of the bright fortnight of the Kārtika month (known also as Prabodhini Ekādasi), the day on which Vishnu awakes from his four months' sleep, granting the village Komyāņa of Vodā-vishaya to the astrologer Jagadhera-Śarmsn, resident of Pattavada pataka, situated in the district of Kontarávange-vishaya, emigrant from Vapabhūmi, situated in the middle of Thihāra-vishaya by Yasabhañjedēva, son of Rāyabhañja II, who was son of Virabhañja, who was son of RĀyabhasja I, who was son of the Rajadhiraja Dēvabhanja, styled' Samastu-Khiñjali-dēs-adhipati or lord of the whole Khiñjali conutry, which connects him with the family headed by Silābhañjadeva, from whom the kings referred to in the preceding three (H, I, J) records, were descended. Though Khiñjali is not mentioned in the three foregoing records in hand, it finds a mention in A, B and C. In the latter there is a mention of Ubhaya-Khiñjali-mandala which shows that the Khiñjali was divided into two mandalas or divisions, though owned by the same king. The records, however, do not show how Dévabhanja, the original ancestor of Yasabhanja's family, was connected with the parental stock to which all the kings mentioned in plates A to J appear to belong. From these elevent records of the Bhañja family the following tentative genealogy may be made out :
[R. B. Krishna Sastri would read this name as Arātaha ; see his Ep. Rep. for 1917-18, p. 12, No. 6.-Ed.] (R. B. Krishna Sastri would read it as Varēndhi, see ibid., p. 136, para. 13.-Ed.]
[If it is a derivative of the Teluga targe- ledger, the official might have been lodger-keeper of land given. By analogy it appears to be supported by the Kanarese expression vargakods which means to deliver land ta somebody as his property."-Ed.]
Sixteen. See Postscript.
. (In drawing the genealogical tree we sbould not lose sight of the fact that some of these rulers used different seals, for such a difference CAD well indicate a different honge or branch of a dynasty-14.]
