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aforementioned three Katak Grants. From these records we learn that Sadhāraṇa was "an immigrant from Takāri, a resident of Turvuna in Kõsala, belonging to the Bharadvāja gotra.. "
Of the localities mentioned in the record, Suvarnapura is the same as the modern town of Sonepur, situated at the confluence of the Tel and the Mahanadi. Arāma, from where the charter was issued, is described to be a prosperous city with palatial buildings, temples, gardens, tanks and what not. On the other hand, we know that the three Katak Grants of the 31st year were issued from the same Ārāma, but that in those records it appears as a mere site of the royal camp (kataka). Besides, a part of the description of Ārāma in the present plates is practically identicale with the account of Murasiman (another camping place from where somes of MahaBhavagupta(II)-Janamējaya's grants have been issued) in the Nagpur Museum Plates of the 8th year. It follows, therefore, that the present description of Ārāma is only conventional and may not be depended upon as an exact portrayal of the locality. In view of these considerations it is safer to assume that Arāma was a place, perhaps not far from the town of Sonepur, where the royal camp was often pitched. Luputurā-khanda, wherein the donated village was included, is mentioned also in an earlier grant of the same donor, where the word is spelt as Lupaturā.? According to Rai Bahadur Hira Lal' this Lupaturā-khanda is probably the same as Lipatungā of the Pätná Plates of the 6th year', which he was inclined to identify with Lepta, six miles southeast of Bolangir in the Pātņā State. B. C. Mazumdarlo has, on the other hand, pointed out Nuptara and Nuparšinga within the Sonepur State one of which, he thought, must be identical with Lupatura. I agree with the latter view and opine that Nuptara must be the village after which Luputurā-khanda was named. As for Gottaikēlā the donated village, Mr. Sarkar, the Secretary of the Sonepur State, kindly informs me that it is now known as Gotarkela and is about three miles from the town of Sonepur.
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First Plate. 1 gall RACHTETTE (a)aya acarafamento
2 Terragraza (TUTTO(a)agaugen()fufracufeira . Above, Vol. III, p. 350, The reading seenis to be Turerula rather than T'urvouna. See also below p. 253, n. 7.
We have Tela-Mahanadi-sanyuma vimala-jala-paritrikrita................pittuna-Sururunupur-acusilaSrimad-vijaya-kafakal in the Jātēsingi-Dungri Plates of Maha-Sivagupta(I)-Yayitidiva. .1. B. 0. R. S.. Vol. II, p. 52, Bhandarkar's List, No. 1856.
Srimad- Arama-samāvāsinah srimato vijaya-katakal. It may be pointed out here that Fleet, who has edited these grants, has explained Irama as pleasure-garden' and taken kvakn for the city of) Kataka, identifying it with the modern Cuttack. Some other scholars have correctly taken this word in the sense of' camp' See above , Vol. XI, pp. 188f.
See below n. 14. Bhandarkar's List, Nos. 1558-60. . We may even take Arama to mean a pleasure.garden with a palace where the king occasionally resided. * Above, Vol. XI, p. 94. It has been read as Lupattard, but the correct reading is Luptura. & Above, Vol. XI, p. 201. . Above, Vol. III, p. 314. 10 Above, Vol. XI, p. 101. 11 Expressed by a symbol.
12 This akshara looks more like ne. The e-stroke is parted into two at the end, whereby perhaps ai is meant. The proper sign for ai-matra is, however, seen below in nai of naitrdy 1. 23.
11 The letter ra is clear on the plate, though the impression shows a curve against the horizontal stroke of it.
14 Read -dada-dido nana-. With this description we may compare aneka-wira-rilasini-charawa-nopinupu)Ta-rar-odbhrantamatta pararata-kulata(6) Arkola-dig-antar-agata-indi-juna ristirita-Kivllah Srimato Murasi(87)mwah of the Nagpur Museum Plates of the 8th year (above, Volume VIII, p. 141).
