History of Orissa from the Earliest Times to the British Period v1.c15.1.2

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Keilhorn at first supposed that king Mādhavavarman was the son of Sainyabhīta II, but later on when he published the fac-simile, he gave up this idea and acknowledged that Sainyabhīta II was the same person as Mādhavavarman.¹ The Ganjam plates of the Gupta year 300 supply us with a simpler genealogy by stating that the donor Mādhavarāja II was the son of Yaśobhīta and the grandson of Mādhavarāja I. The late Dr. Hultzsch was correct in stating that in the Buguda plates Sainyabhīta was a *biruda* of Mādhavarman.² No fac-similes of the Buguda plates were published at that time, but the late Dr. Hultzsch was of the opinion that the characters of the Buguda plates belong to a much later date than the Ganjam plates of 619 A. D. The Ganjam plates do not give the legend about the birth of Lord Śailodbhava but mention that Mādhavarāja II was born in the Śilodbhava family and that he was a subordinate chief (*Mahāsāmanta*) with the title of *Mahārāja*. The object of the inscription was to record the gift of the village of Chhavalakkhya in the district (*Vishaya*) of Krishnagiri in the year of the Guptas 300.³ The Buguda plates record the gift of the village of Puipina in Khadira-pāṭaka in the district (*Vishaya*) of Guḍḍā.⁴ In the Buguda plates it is stated that Mādhavarman-Sainyabhīta was in residence at Kaingoda. The Ganjam plates state that the order was issued from the victorious camp at Koṅgoda.