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No. 34] PATTALI GRANT OF YUVARAJA RAJENDRAVARMAN, GANGA YEAR 313 Rajendravarman and queen of Anantavarman, for the first time. The Nampali charter records the grant of Nampali-grama situated in Nidijēru-vishaya in favour of Samiraja, son of Gulamaraja (wrongly read as Gunamaraja) of the Ayana-kula. It was written by Mahäsändhivigrahin Raha (i.e. Rahasya or Rahasyadhikrita) Sri-Samanta1 and engraved by Akshasalin Damachandra. It I will be seen that the same Akshasalin Damachandra was also the engraver of the charter under study while Samiraja, donee of the Nampali grant, seems to be none other than Mahasändhivi grahika Samiraja who was its writer. It is interesting to note that the Mandasa plates, issued by Rajendravarman more than quarter of a century later, was written by Sandhivigrahin Ranōmeya who was the son of the said Samirāja,
An interesting feature of the records of Rajendravarman, issued by him as Yuvaraja during the years 313 and 314, is that they do not refer to the rule of his uncle Devendravarman who is known to have issued charters in the years 308 and 310. It should also be noticed that Yuvarāja Rajendravarman's grants dated in the years 313 and 314 and Devendravarman's charters dated in the years 308 and 310 were all issued from the city of Kalinganagara. In the present state of insufficient information on the point, it is difficult to suggest any hostility between Rajendravarman and his uncle only on this ground. We know that the Early Eastern Ganga kings generally represented themselves each as the son of his father and not as the successor of his predecessor. As for instance, Devendravarman's charters describe him as the son of Rajendravarman and not as the successor of his elder brother and predecessor Anantavarman. But Yuvaraja Rajendravarman's case is somewhat different since he issued the charters in question as a crown-prince when his uncle Devendravarman may have been on the throne. As, however, the Mayidavolu plates were similarly issued by the Pallava Yuvamahārāja Sivaskandavarman without any reference to the reigning Pallava king who was probably his father, it is not easy to arrive at a conclusion from this fact.
Besides Kalinganagara, the capital of the Eastern Gangas, identified generally with modern Mukhalingam near Srikakulam, and the well-known Mahendragiri peak on the borders between the Ganjam and Srikakulam Districts, the inscription mentions the following geographical names; the villages of Paṭṭali or Paḍali, Kusasankira and Arali as well as the districts of Krishnamaṭṭamba, Dapu-pañchali and Jamboṭṭa-pañchali. I am not sure about their location. There are other instances of the use of the word pañchali to indicate a territorial unit in the inscriptions of the area in question.3
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1 Siddham svasti [ A*]marapur-anu(nu) kariņa[h*] srarvartu-sukha-ra[ma]'ni
1 In the records of Devendravarman the expression ari-Samanta is used as an epithet of both the scribe and he engraver. In this case, however, Samanta looks like the personal name of the scribe unless it is believed that le personal name was omitted after the epithet through oversight. An Amatya Sri-Samanta seems to have been the scribe of the Tekkali plates of Anantavarman (second son of Dövendravarman, predecessor of Rajendravarman of the inscription under study), dated year 358 (above, Vol. XXVIII, p. 341).
The engraver of the record is stated to have been the son of one Maüchandra who seems to have been related to Damachandra. Malchandra may also be a wrong reading for Damachandra.
Cf. Köräsöḍaka-pañchill in the Koroshanda plates of Visakhavarman (above, Vol. XXI, pp. 23 ff.) and the Chicacole (Srikakulam) plates of Indravarman (Ind. Ant., Vol. XIII, pp. 122 ff.). Pushyagiri-pañchali is call d vishaya in the Sudava plates of Devendravarman (above, Vol. XXVI, pp. 62 ff).
"From the original plates.
Expressed by symbol.
Read sarv-artu. There is trace of a letter, originally incised and later erased, between rea and riu. 'The sign meant for the letter ma has a peculiar form.
