History of Orissa from the Earliest Times to the British Period v1.c14.87

v1.c14.87

With the beginning of the seventh century we reach surer ground in the history of Orissa and we get a larger number of records for the construction of her ancient past. The object of the inscription of the Patiakella plate is to record the donation of the village to a large number of Brāhmaṇas by Śivarāja. The donees belonged to different *Gotras* *Charaṇas*. About the Māna-vaṃśa we know that it is referred to in two other inscriptions; the Govindpur stone inscription of the Poet Gaṅgādhara of the Śaka year 1059,² and the Dudhpani rock inscription of Udayamāna³. Govindpur is in the southern part of the Nawada sub-division of the Gaya district and Dudhpani is in the Hazaribagh district of Bihar and Orissa, localities not too far away from Orissa. No definite information is available about these Māna kings except that Varṇamāna ruled at a time when Orissa was independent under Gaṅga kings. Udayamāna is much earlier and belongs to the 8th century according to Kielhorn, but he was not a man from Orissa but from Ayodhyā.