History of Orissa from the Earliest Times to the British Period v1.c19.22.4

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The inscription was incised by the merchant and goldsmith Śivanāga, son of Pāṇḍi.² In the Baudh plates of the year 26th Raṇabhañja I is mentioned as the son of Śatrubhañja, master of both the Khiñjalīs, one who has obtained the five great sounds, who was saluted by the great Sāmantas, one who had obtained the favour of the goddess Stambheśvarī and Rāṇaka. The charter was issued from Dhṛtipura and records the grant of a piece of land to the south of the river Mahānadī and east of the river Śalaṅkī named Ballāśṛṅga in the Khātia district (Vishaya) of the Khiñjali Maṇḍala, to a Brāhmaṇa named Bhaṭṭaputra Dāmodara of the Maudgalya gotra and the Kāṇva Śākhā of the Vājasaneya caraṇa of the Yajur-veda, who was an emigrant from the Bhaṭṭa village of Khaduvāpali in the Middle country (Madhya-deśa), on the fifth day of the bright half of the month of Mārgaśirsha of the year 26 of the reign. After the death of the donee the grant was given to his son Chhadoka. The charter was written by the merchant and goldsmith, Sivanāga, son of Pāṇḍi.¹ The village of Vallāśṛiṅgā has been identified with Bālāsiṅgā about two miles from Baudh and situated on the confluence of the rivers Sālki and Mahānadī, and the district of Khātiā with the pargana of Machhiakhaṇḍa of the Baudh State.² A new charter of Raṇabhañja I was discovered in the State of Baudh in 1915 and sent by the Political Agent of the Orissa Feudatory States.