History of Orissa from the Earliest Times to the British Period v1.c13.3

v1.c13.3

This record supplies an account of the first 13 years of the reign of Khāravela and certain benefactions conferred by him on the Jaina community at the same place. This inscription is the only record of India, the object of which is to record the history of events of the reign of a particular monarch in chronological order. It is a Jaina inscription, and it is certain that Khāravela himself was a Jaina. The record opens with invocations to the Arhats and the Siddhas, and we learn from the first line that Khāravela belonged to the Cheti or the Chedi dynasty. His titles were Mahārāja and Mahāmeghavāhana and he is also styled "Overlord of Kaliṅga" (Kaliṅg-ādhipatin).