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15 gai-yidaik-Kumari-yidai 16 [se] ydār seyda pāvat17 tir paduvär i-dhanmam rakshi18 ppăr=adi yen muļi mēlana (I*]
TRANSLATION
(In the) Saka year 888, Isvarapichchan (a member of the trading corporation) Tigai-ytyira[t*]taiññürrru-nagar, released the tank of the Travar (by) giving gold to the assembly (Ur) of Pungaņūr in Paduvür-köttam. He who says ' nay 'to this shall incur the sins committed by the sinners) between the Gangai and Kumari. The sacred feet of him who protects this charity shall be on my head.
If this charity be violated, the Uravar of Pungaņār agree to be liable for a penalty of a quarter pon daily to the reigning king. The sacred feet of those who) protect (this charity) shall be on my head.
(In the) Saka year 9, I, Anaiyamman, son of flādarāyan Tattālan, mada a gift of the tazes) Kaņņālak-kāņam, Orppadin-kādi (and) Pidā-nāli (derived from) this village (s.e., Punganūr) to Paramandalădittap-pārēri (which) I constructed at Pungapūr.
(I), Dlādarāyan Aņaiyamman (assigned this) gift to Paramandalādittap-pārēri (of this) village. Those (who) destroy this (charity) shall incur the sins committed by the sinners between the Gangai and Kumari. The feet of (those who) protect this charity shall be on my head.
No. 44-TWO GRANTS OF BHANJA KINGS OF VANTULVAKA
(2 Plates) D. C. SIRCAR, OOTACAMUND, AND P. ACHARYA, BHUBANESWAR
More than five years ago, two sets of copper-plate inscriptions were secured by Dr. Radha Charana Paņdā, a medical practitioner of Balugãon on the Bengal-Nāgpur Railway in the Puri District of Orissa. Ultimately the inscriptions found their way to the Orissa Museum, Bhubaneswar, where they are now lying. On examination it was found that both the charter belong to the Bhañja rulers of Vañjulvaka, a hitherto unidentified city in the present Ganjam region. One of the grants was issued by Silābhañja II who was so long known only from the records of his descendants, while the other was issued by king Nēttabhañja Tribhuvanakalaga who is as yet unknown from any other sources. No information was supplied to us in regard to the findspot of the records and the story of their discovery.
1.-Plates of Silābhañja Tribhuvanakalasa The inscription is written on a set of three copper plater. The outor sides of the first and third plates are blank. The plates measure each 6-6 inches by 2-9 inches. The central plate has
The letters dhanma are engraved in Grantha. • Angraved in Granth
