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Some of the numerous literary and epigraphical quotations given above must be placed in dates later than the time of Bammoja, mentioned in the present document. But neither his name nor his style (Kāliṅga) is associated with the three styles, Nāgara, Vesara, Drāviḍa, in any of the instances quoted above. It is not unlikely that Bammoja ‘discovered’ the three styles, which had been perhaps existing long before him, and adding his own invention (Kaliṅga) claimed the originality for all the four. Such instances of unscrupulously adding to the works of one’s predecessors and claiming the originality are not rare in the literary or the archaeological records.