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the Chilkā Lake and the old route from Malud". Pandit Nilakantha Das, finally, believes that “Dantapur is undoubtedly the present Puri of Jagannath".!
A like divergence of opinion prevails over the question of connotation of the geographical expression Trikalinga. According to Mr. R. D. Banerji', Trikalinga comprised within it the tracts of country anciently known as Kalinga, Tösala and Utkala ; while Dr. R. G. Basak believega that it included Udra (Orissa proper), Köngöda and Kalinga. Mr. G. Ramdas lastly holds that Trikalinga denoted" the highlands intervening between the cost (sic) strip called Kalinga and the Dakshina-Kõsala or the modern Chatisgarh (sic)"..
The village of Jijjika which was given away, is evidently, as already suggested by Mr. Subba Rao, the same as the modern village of Jirjingi, the find-spot of our record, in the Tekkali Zemindary of the Ganjām district. The Vonkhara-bhôga, in which the village granted was situated, I am unable to identify.
The date of the record is given as the 21st day of Vaišākha of the year 39 of the prosperous reign of the Gangas). The epoch of this era being still unsettled, it is hazardous to attempt at any sure estimation of its correct age. Failing all other help, we are constrained to fall back on the solitary evidence of the palæography of the record under discussion. Taking all things into consideration and leaving a reasonable margin on either side, we would refer this record to the period 475-550 A.D.
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First Plate. 1 Om? Svasti (11) Amara-pura-pratisparddhi-sri(fri)mad-Dantapurād=bhagavatası
sakala-bhu2 vana-tal-otpatti-stbiti pralaya-hētāḥ Paramësvarasya satata-prana3 m-avāptah-punya-sanchaya-prabhāva-nirast-āģēsha-durito Gäng-imala-kula4 gagana-tala-sahasrarasmiḥ anēka-chäturddanta-samara-vijaya5 vimala vikoba-nistrinsao-dhårā-samākrānta-sakala-sämanta6 nipati-mandal-adhipatihu.makuta-nihita-ruchira-padmaräga. 7 prabhā-prasēka-parishvanga-pingāngīksitale.charana-yugalah
Second Plate; First Side. 8 atula-va(ba)la-samuday-äväpta-vipula-vibhava-sampal-latā9 mandapa-chchhāyā-vibranta-suhțit-sadhu-vā(bā)ndhav-artthi-janah 10 måtă-pitsi-pad-anuddhyātas=Trikaling-adhipati-sri-Mahū
1J. A. H. R. S., Vol. II, p. 23. • History of Orissa, Vol. I, map facing p. 49. • History of North-Eastern India, P. 161.
J. A. H. R. S., Vol. I, pp. 16 ff.; esp. p. 23. . Ibid., Vol. III, p. 49. • From ink-impressions kindly supplied by the Government Epigraphist for India. * Expressed by a symbol. . Note the northern form of l. . Read -avāpta. 20 Read - nistrimfa. 11 Read -adhipati.. 11 Better read -pisangikrita..
