History of Orissa from the Earliest Times to the British Period v1.c19.22.3

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The charter records the grant of the village of Ṭasapāikerā on the river Mahānadī in the Uttarapalli division. The king is called the Lord of both Khiñjalis. The donee was Śrīdhara, a Brāhmaṇa of the Bhāradvāja gotra, an inhabitant of the village of Kāmāri, who belonged to the Mādhyandina branch of the Yajur-veda and who was an immigrant from Bhaṭa Nirola. The grant was issued in the sixteenth year of the king’s reign on the 6th day of an unspecified month. It was engraved by the goldsmith Śivanāga, son of Pāṇḍi.¹ The Chakardharpur plates of the same king were issued in the 24th year. They were discovered in the village of Chakardharpur in the State of Daspalla. In this inscription Śīlabhañja I is mentioned as the grandfather and Śatrubhañja as the father of Raṇabhañja I. The charter was issued from Dhṛtipura and in it Raṇabhañja I is mentioned as the Lord of both the Khiñjalīs, one who has obtained the five great sounds, the boon of the goddess Stambheśvarī, born of the family produced out of an egg, the devout Vaiṣṇava and Rāṇaka. It records the grant of the village of Tuleṇḍā in the district (Vishaya) of Tullāsiṅgā in the Maṇḍala of Khiñjalī to Padmākara of the Kṛṣṇ-ātreya gotra and of the Chhandoga Charaṇa and the Kauthuma Śākhā of the Sāmaveda, who was an immigrant from the village of Pechipāṭaka in the Maṇḍala of Varendrī (Northern Bengal) and an inhabitant of Burallā.