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(VOL. XXVIII Saktivarman with the possibility of Anantavarman intervening between them who might have been the father of our present Saktivarman. The latter's name is perhaps-indicated by the double form Ananta-Saktivarman to distinguish him from the earlier Saktivarman. If this suggestion be accepted, then we may place Mahārāja Ananta-Saktivarman, the donor of the present charter, in the first half of the 5th century A. D.
Since the grant was issued from a military camp at Vijayapura and not from Simhapura' which is mentioned as the capital in the records dated later one is tempted to presume that AnantaSaktivarman was just then engaged in some battle. No information is available as to the king with whom he was fighting. Presumably he was compelled in his 14th year to leave Pishtapura. his ancestral capital, by the rising power of the Sālańkāyana rulers of Venge to find a capital in the northern regions of Kalinga, i.e., Vijaya-Simhapura or Simhapura, from where menubers of his dynasty ruled subsequently till they were overthrown by the Vāsishthas.
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First Plate 1 Svasti [I] mahābasty-asva-skandhāvārād=Vijayapurăd=Bhagavataḥ-Ka2 malanilay-akkränta-vakshaso Nārāyaṇa-svåminah-pada-bhaktaḥ 3 parama-daivatao-bappa-bhattāraka-pada-prasād-āvāpta-Sarfra4 rājya-vibhava-pratāpõ Māțhara-kul-alankarishņuḥ-Kalingadhipa
Second Plate; First Side 6 tid=Sriman-Mahārāj-Ananta-Śaktivarmma(mma) (ĀJöndõreppa-grāmē sa[r]vva-8A6 manvāgatan-kuțumbinas=samājñāpayati [l*) asty=avani[pa)-yathökta7 dharmm-āvasthana-vijita-ttrivishtapair-Aryyaka-Śakti-bhattāraka-pā 8 daih nānā-gotra-nânā-charaņēbhyo brāhmaņēbhyah=pūrvva-datta ity-asmā
Second Plate ; Second Side 9 bhir-api sva-puny-āyur-yyaső-bhivsiddhaye å sahasrambu-sasi-tara10 kād=agrahāran=kpitvā sarkva-pariharais-cha parihfity=aibhyo brāhmaṇa-ku11 lēbhyõ=tiarishtaḥ [ll] tad=ēvam jñātvā yushmābhir=uchit-opasthānan=ka 12 Etta vyam[l *]bhavishyad-rājāmg=cha vijñāpayati yushmābhir=api pravsittakum .
.C.P. No. 4 1934-35 : Simhapura has been identified by Dr. Holtzsch (above, Vol. IV, page 143) with the modern Ringupuram or Singapuram in the Narasannapeta taluk of the present Srikakulam District.
From original plates. . May be corrected as parama-daivata[1*) in which case this epithet becomes applicable to the royal donor.
[The writer may have purposely used the a-ending form and not n-ending, thus "varmmah and not varmma, in which case Do correction is necessary, the hiatus in varamma Andoo being perfectly regular according to the aindhi rules. That the a-ending form is not incorrect, but ought to be taken as a less common form, may be in ferred from its uso in certain other early inscriptions. Compare, for example, Saruvavarmmēna in the Nirmand plate of Samudrasena (CII, Vol. III, p. 289, text line 9); putro-Svavarmmo vikhyalah (the yupå inscription A of king Molavarman, Borneo, Bijdragen tot de Taal Land-en Volkenkunde van Nederlandsch-India, Vol. 74, 1918, d. 213); and Vishwuarmmasya of the Perak soal (J. A. 8. B., Letters, Vol. I, 1936, p. 28). If the above surmise is correct, the writer of the present charter has done well in employing the less common form, for, in doing so, he has waved the ambiguity which would otherwise bave resulted as to the proper name of the village, beginning an a. The coalescence would have passed unnoticerl, or, if detected, one would have been left wondering whether the name of the village began with an e or with an d.--Ed.)
• Tbo sooms to have been writton on an erasure. Its form is slightly different from the à in line 9, which perfectly formed.
