History of Orissa from the Earliest Times to the British Period v1.c18: Appendix I
History of Orissa from the Earliest Times to the British Period v1.c18
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Appendix I
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A new copper plate grant was discovered recently in the State of Hindol and is in the possession of the chief of that State. I am indebted to Pandit Tarakesvar Ganguli of the Mayurbhañja State for an indifferent photograph of two sides of this plate. The inscription is one of Śubhākara of the Kara dynasty, but it mentions a new line in the ancestry of the Kara kings. In the third line it is stated that when Lakshmikara and other kings had gone to heaven, in that family was born the illustrious Śubhākara (L1. 3 & 5). The Bhaum-ānvaya is mentioned in the beginning of L. 3. The son of this Śubhākara was Śāntikara (L. 7). His son was born of Tribhuvana Mahādevī, (L. 10), the Paramabhaṭṭāraka-Mahārājādhirāja Parameśvara Śubhākaradeva II. The grant was issued from Śubhadeva-Paṭaka in the year 18(? 9)3 of the bright half on the seventh day of Śrāvaṇa. The charter records the grant of the village of Rohila or Roḍḍila in the district (vishaya) of Northern Tosali, to the god Vaidyanātha dedicated in the temple (Āyatana) of Pulindeśvara. Half of the village was to be given to Vaidyanātha for tapana, scents, flowers, lamps, incense, naivedya, vali, charu, and pūjā as well as for the maintenance of the temple-servants and the repairs of the temple and the other half for the supply of Satra, kaupīna, etc., of Śaiva ascetics. I have not been able to read the inscription completely or satisfactorily from the photograph supplied to me, because the copper plate was plentifully sprinkled with powdered chalk before it was photographed. The genealogy of the first group of Kara kings stands as follows :
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Kshemaṅkara Param-opāsaka
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Śivakara Parama-Tathāgata
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Śubhakara Parama-Saugata (Neulpur plate).
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The genealogy of the first dynasty of Kara kings is carried on for several generations by the Chaurasi plate. Thus we have :
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Kshemaṅkara
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Śivakara I-Jayāvalī
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Śubhakara-Mādhavadevi
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Śivakara II
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The genealogy of the second group of the Kara kings is longer and more complicated :
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Unmattasiṃha : Gayāḍa : Loṇabhāra
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Kusumabhāra —————— Lalitabhāra
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Śāntikara Śubhakara II
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According to the Dhenkanal plates of Tribuvana Mahādevī, she was the wife of Lalitabhāra, but, according to the Hindol plates, Tribuvana Mahādevī was the wife of Śāntikara. Whether this is a mistake of the Dhenkanal inscription due to the imperfection of my own decipherment, cannot be determined at present. The donor of the new Hindol plate should, therefore, be Śubhakara II. Lakshmī-kara mentioned as the ancestor of the second group of Kara kings is a new name which has not been met with before.