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KENDUPATNA PLATES OF NARASIMHA II; SETS II AND III
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made a total of 100 vifikas of land which was granted to the donee Bhimadēvasarman as a permanent rent-free holding together with the right to enjoy it along with land and water as well as fish and tortoise. The sāsanādhikärint (writer and keeper of documents) Allalanátha Sēnā pati, who is also known from other records of Narasimha II, received two vātikās of mixed homestead and watercovered land apparently as his fees or perquisite. The engraver of the document, the copperSmith Pannādi, who was also the writer of the first set of the Kendupatni plates, similarly received one vitika of mixed homestead and water-covered land. It is specifically said that the coppersmith received his plot of land from the donee, the Brihat-Kumāra-mahāpātra Bhimadēvasarman. The absence of the specification of the boundaries, etc., of any extra plot of land suggests that the tä sanādhikarin also received his plot from the donee. This seems to have been the established custom as indicated by the expression sāsan-adhikari-vyavasthita in line 197 of the first set of the plates.
The following seven rent-paying subjects were allotted to the sāsana, which is not endowed with a special name as in other charters:
(1) Kalidasa who was the son of Anantiā, a sankhakära (maker of conch-shell bangles) of the Gölködä hatta (market); (2) Késő śrështhin who was an inhabitant of Komatichohhangula and belonged to the Jayanagara hafta ; (3) Alālūt who was the grandson of the goldsmith Vāmadēva of the Kivalēlo hatta; (4) Vanamálin who was the grandson of Virjü, an oilman of Arulapura; (5) Anantai who was the grandson of Ranāi, & milkman of Vattakēsvara hatta ; (6) Indū who was the grandson of Sirū, a potter of the Painnapada hatta ; and (7) Vanamálin who was the grandson of the oilman Rāju of Jhajhallapura. It has to be pointed out that the words gopa and gopara are prefixed to the names of tailika-Virjū and téli(li)-Raju. The same word seems to have been used As göpäpa in the passage Voirðā-göpäpa-tailika-Jäguli-brështhikasya in the Asankhali plates and in line 197 of the third set of the Këndupățnā plates. Whether this refers to a particular community among the oilmen cannot be decided.
Besides Rēmuna, a well-known locality near Balasore, the charter mentions a number of districts, villages and market places. The districts mentioned are the Sõngadā and Kusamandala vishayas. The villages lying in the Sõngadă district were Võhāla, Bhamnaņā, Jomarāma, Sunäilo and Andiyoala and those in the Kusamandala vishaya were Gadhai, Mangalapura (styled sâsana), Dēvapura, Sångapada, Khadinga, Naērõã and Bhämdapada, all, situated in the vicinity of one another. The list of rent-paying subjects discloses the names of the following localities : Gölāādā hatta, Kõmatichchhangüla, Jayanagara hatta, Kivalēlo hatta, Ārūlapura, Vattakēśvara hatļa, Painnapadā hatta and Jhajhallapura. I have not been able to identify them satisfactorily. The name Sunäilo, also known from other records of king Narasimha II, was apparently borne by different villages.
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[Lines 1-158 are incised on Plates I, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa, IVb and Va.]
Fifth Plate ; Second Side Lines 159-175 [Verse 105 of the introductory part ends with line 175).
1 of. Sasanädhikarika in the records, e.g., of the Western Chalukyas. See above, Vol. XII, pp. 116, 314. Anala is Tamil name and Allalanåths may have been the descendant of one of the Tamil officials of the Anoeators of Narasimha II. Soo our article on the Alagum inscription to be published in this journal.
* Cr, the name Anala above. . Arul is a Tamil name and appears to point to Tamil influence in Orissa. Cf. note 1 above, . From the original plates and their impressions.
