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of the latter are straight and angular in shape, a difference which is perhaps due to our records being on copper-plates while the other is on stone. It is therefore permissible to conclude that the Patna Museum and the Kumarisithha plates of Sõmēsvaradēva II were issued in the 12th century A.C. and that the five generations of kings figuring therein flourished during the 11th and 12th centuries A.C. It is found that the facts of contemporary history of the locality fully support the above chronological position for these chiefs.
of the kings figuring in the genealogy, Chandrädityadēva seems identical with the TeluguChoda prince Chandrāditya who is described as a subordinate of the Nāgavamsi Sinda king, Dhärivarsha of Chakrakota in two Telugu inscriptions dated Saka 983, Särvari, Kärttika su. 5, Monday, corresponding to October 2, Monday, 1060 A.C., at Barasur and Potinar in the Bastar State. This chief is introduced with the same Telugu-Chöda prasasti commencing with the words aridurdılharavara, etc., which Sömösvaradovavarman of the Mahadā plates and Sõmēsvaradēva II of the Kumārisimhā plates adopt. An additional detail found in Chandräditya's prasasti is that he is called the lord of Ammagamapura. This city may be identified with Ambogramo in the Jeypore agency, Koraput District, Orissa. The village lies about 75 miles east of Jagadalpur, capital of Bastar." But both the charters of Chandraditya's grandson, Sõmesvaradēva II, were issued from Suvarnapura (Sonepur). Whether Somēśvara II himself transferred his headquarters to Sonepur cannot be determined in the present state of our knowledge ; but there is no doubt that the Telugu-Choda occupation of Sonepur followed the rule of the Sõmavaisis in that region. Thus Sõmēsvara II must have issued his records from Sonepur sometime after the Kelga (Sonepur) plates of the Somavamsi Kumārādhiraja Sõmēsvara'had been issued from that city. It has been shown that the rule of the Sömavamsi Sõmēsvara should be assigned to the close of the 11th century A.C. and the beginning of the twelfth. The rule of Telugu-Chöda Sõmēsvara II at Suvarnapura should therefore be relegated to a period about the commencement of the 12th century A.C. Since Chandrāditya was living about 1060 A.C., the approximate dates of the members of his family might be : Challamarāja (c. 1025 A.C.), Jasarājadēva I (c. 1040 A.C.), Sõmēśvaradēva I (c. 1050-75 A.C.), Chandrädityadēva (c. 1055-80 A.C.), Jasarājadēva II (c. 1080-1105 A.C.) and Sõmēsvaradēva II (c. 1105-1130 A.C.).
These conclusions in respect of the chronology of the family of Sömēsvaradēva II of Suvarnapura would now help us to correlate this line with that of Sõmēsvaradevavarman, the donor of the Mahadā plates, who as shown above, must have flourished about the 12th century. Since both the sets of rulers belonging to the same Chöļa stock are found flourishing in the same age and locality they apparently belonged to the same family, and, in all probability, Sõmēsvaradēvavarman, the grandfather of the issuer of the Mahada plates, is identical with Sömēsvaradēva II of the Patna Museum and Kumārisimhā plates. The main reason for identifying him with Sõmēsvaradeva II instead of Sõmēsvaradēva I is the following. The modification of the feudatory titles and the
1 Inscriptions in the C.P. and Berar (1932), Nos. 269 and 270; An. Rep. 8.1. E., 1909, part II, para. 65; 8. 1. I., Vol. X, Nor. 644 and 645.
- There is another place called Ambgaon in the Chanda District, Madhya Pradesh, about 120 miles northwest of Barasur. Whether this was the place referred to as the seat of Chandraditya cannot be affirmed in the present state of our knowledge.
. Above, Vol. XII, pp. 237 ff. A revised edition of the inscription is being published in this journal. I. H.Q., Vol. XXII, p. 307.
The Kumirisimha plates of king Smēsvara II refer to a lunar eclipse in the month of Maghs of the king's Ilth regnal year. In the period to which wo have assigned this king, the above details tallied on three dates. cia., Feburary 1, 1124 A.C.; January 21, 1125 A.C. and January 10, 1126 A.C. The intended date may be any one of those.
Pandit Binayak Misra suggested the identificatiou of the king with Smokvaradova I, the elder brother of Chandridity (J.K. H. R. 8., Vol. 1, No. 2, p. 148 and note). MGIPC_81–18 DGA/12-26-6-53—450.
