History of Orissa from the Earliest Times to the British Period v1.c15.25

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We do not know what happened to the Śailodbhavas after Madhyamarāja. One branch of the family probably ruled in some part of the Central Provinces, as we know from the Ragholi plates of Jayavardhana II, who claims descent from the Śaila family.¹ Mahāmahopādhyāya Dr. Haraprasād Sāstri has published a single plate of an inscription of a king named Madhyamarāja. The learned editor of this inscription is of the opinion that, because two Princes in this inscription are called Madhyamarāja and one Mānabhīta, this Madhyamarāja is a King of the Śaila or Śailodbhava family. In the first place, this plate, as the learned editor has already observed, is the second or the third plate of a set of four or five. Even the genealogical portion is not complete in it. In the second place, these kings are not mentioned as being born of the Śailodbhava family and there is no mention of Koṅgoda. Therefore it is impossible, at the present state of our knowledge, to identify this line of kings as belonging to the Śailodbhava dynasty.² At some subsequent date the Śailas or the Śailodbhavas migrated to the Malay Peninsula, where their inscriptions have been discovered. A king named Śrībalaputradeva was the contemporary of Devapāla of Bengal (800-50 A. D.).³