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(VOL. XXIX 46 पूर्वकोणादारभ्य दक्षिणाभिमुखं क्षेत्राल्या गत्वा गणेश्वरखातकपश्चिमाल्या गत्वा
वक्रातिवक्रेण दु(दू)रं गत्वा पू47 वदक्षिणकोणे प्रोप्तशिला यावत् । ततो दक्षिणदिशि पश्चिमाभिमुखं क्षेत्राल्या
- स्तोकं गत्वा मृगजानुना शा48 खोटकविटपेन गत्वा दक्षिणपश्चिमकोणे गोहेरिकां यावत् । ततः पश्चिम
दिश्युत्तराभिमुखं गोहेर्या 49 प्रगुणेन दूरं. गत्वा पश्चिमोत्तरकोणे प्रोप्तशिलां यावत् । तत उत्तरदिशि
पूर्वाभिमुखं क्षेत्राल्या प्रगुणे50 न दूरं गत्वा प्रथमसंमु(सू)चितसीमां यावत् ॥
No. 31-NOTE ON TWO PLATES OF TRIBHUVANAMAHADEVI FROM BAUD
D. C. SIRCAR, OOTACAMUND
Mr. S. C. De's paper on the inscriptions in question has been published above. We find it rather difficult to agree with some of Mr. De's suggestions. In the following lines, some comments are offered especially on the most important of them, namely, the one concerning the identity and age of the Bhauma-Kara queen who issued the Dhenkanal plate. ___ In the Hindol- and Dharakotas plates of Subhakara III, both dated in the year 103 of the Bhauma-Kara era, the said king is described as the son of Santikara-I from Mahadevi Tribhuvanamahādēvi who was brīman-Nāg-odbhava-kula-lalama-bhavā, i.e., born in the eminent family sprung from the illustrious Näga. All the three Talcher plates of the great-grandsons of this queen, viz., Subhakara IV (one grant dated in the year 145, usually read as 141) and Sivakara III (two grants both dated in the year 149), clearly state that Tribhuvanamahādēvi ascended the Bhauma-Kara throne after the death of her son Kusumahāra or Simhakëtu, i.e., Subhākara III. The Talcher plate of Subhākara IV further says that, when Tribhuvanamahādēvī's naptā or grandson, named Lõnabhāra alias Santikara II, became sufficiently aged, she abdicated the throne in his favour. The corresponding portion of the Talcher plates of Sivakara III, which seems to be corrupt in the original and more so in the published transcript, does not specify the relationship between Tribhuvanamahādēvi and her successor Gayāda II, i.e., Santikara II.
The Dhenkanal plate, issued by Tribhuvanamahādēvi as a ruling queen, bears a date which looks like 100 but may also be read as 120.7 The queen, whose other name is given in her record as Sindagauri and who was the queen of Lalitahāra, is stated to have been the daughter of Rājamalladēva described as the ornament of the southern quarter (dakshin-ādā-mukha-tilaka). It is further stated in the record that the queen ascended the Kara (i.e., Bhauma-Kara) throne after the circle of the Mahāsāmantus (feudatories) had pointed out to her the case of an ancient queen
I acknowledge with thanks the help I received from Pandit Banambar Acharya in editing the inscriptions. -See pp. 210 ff. • Misra, Orissa under the Bhauma Kings, pp. 23 ff. *Ibid., pp. 12ff Hbid., pp. 21 ff.. Ibid., pp. 32 ff., 40 ff.,51. See above, Vol. XXIX, p. Sl, note 3.
