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EPIGRAPHIA INDIOA.
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dēvevarmap. The beginnings of the cursive Oriya script are to be found in the form of a in 1. 25. The first eight lines contain three verses giving the genealogy of the donor. The first person mentioned is Challamarāja of the Chola lineage (1.2), whose son was Jasarāja ( Yabörāja) I, whose son was Somāšvarą I. This prince was succeeded by his nephew (bhrātrija) Jasarāja II. The donor of the grant is the latter's son Somēgyara IL. An additional name is furnished in the prose account of the genealogy in II. 8-14, according to which Sõmēśvara II meditated on the feet of the Paramamāhekvara Jasarāja II, who meditated on the feet of the Paramamāhēbvara Chandrādityadēva. The last named person may be the younger brother of sömöbvara I and the father of Jasarāja H. Sömēbvara II is styled the lord of the entire Kösala (sakala-Kosal-adhisvara), the devout worshipper both of Siva and of Vishnu (Paramamāhèsvara-Paramavaishnava), a Mghavyuhapati, Rāja and Rāraka. These titles indicate his subordinate position and, most probably, he was a subordinate chief under the Eastern Ganga kings of Kalinge. He is also called the bee on the lotus feet of Vaidyanaths. This Vaidyanātha is evidently the same as that mentioned in the Mahada plates of Yögēsvaradēva varman, and identified by Mr. B. C. Mazumdar with a temple of that name in the State of Sonpur.
The object of the inscription is to record the grant of the village of Phullamuthi together with Dohali situated, probably, in the vishaya of Chärodă. The grant is addressed to the people of another village named Vaniyāvandha, the connection of which with the two villages granted is not understood. The donees were Utsavakara and Divakara, the two Brāhmanas belonging to the Gärggya-gotra, who followed the Rig-vēda and had studied the rites of the Yajur-vēda. The grant was made with the object of pleasing the Lord Nārāyana (11. 23-24), on the sixth day of the bright halt of the month of Jyaishtha in the year 17, evidently of the reign of Sõmēsvara II. Phe inscription was written by Pandita Nārāyaṇa and incised by Lokanatha, & Vijñāni (?).
I am unable to identify any of the localities mentioned in this grant (viz., Chārödā-vishaya, Vaniyāvandha, Phullamuthi and Dohali), except Svarnnapura (1. 14) which is the modern Sonpur in Orissa. I edit the inscription from the original plates
Техт.
First Plate. 1 Om [1] Asit kshatriya-sattamo Ravi.samutpannē-tra Chol-anvayi bri2 mån Challamarāja ity-ari-vadhū-vaidhavya:diksha-guruh tat-putro 3 Jasarājądēxa iti vikyātah satā[m] vallabho jitvå vairi-va/ba)lam ve/ba)4 bhāva nanti)patizedāmā(vak) chiram Konala # {1** Tasmādsabhūd=ari-kulam
kshaya-dhūma5 hētuḥ Somēśvarð nripat[i*]r=apratima-pratāpaḥ 1 tad-bbrátçijas=tadan{u*} | 6 niti vida varishthah Sriman-abha(bhū)n-narapatip-dasarājadi()vah || [28] 7 Tat-tanayi gunaśāli prasiddha-med(h)ima jit-ári-vara-Vargga[h*l]
[The script is not so late. See Mr. H. Krishna Sastri's remark in the note referred to in the preceding para.-Ed.]
This chief is probably mentioned in the Kaokálf and Kawardha inacriptions No. 235 of the Descripting Ljste of Inscriptions in the Central Provinces and Beras, by Rai Bahador Hiralal, Pp. 165-66.
* Bao Bohadur Krishna Sastri is inclined to identify him with Challamarāja; spe Ann. Rop. of the Arch. Sur. of India, E. C., 1916-17, p. 4, para. 5. A chief of this name is mentioned in the Barsûr inscription Descriptive Lists of Inscriptions in the C. P. and Berar, pp. 144-45, No. 198, who also claims to be a Chola.
• Expressed by a symbol. The metre is Sardūlavikridita.
• The anusvára is superfluous, Delete the darda
The metre is Vasantakilala
