History of Orissa from the Earliest Times to the British Period v1.c19.32

v1.c19.32

Another grant of Raṇabhañja I, exactly similar in style and composition to the Baudh plates of the year 54, has been discovered in the Baudh State. In this grant also the only ancestor mentioned is Gandhaṭa and the draft is exactly the same as that of the grant of the year 54. Raṇabhañja I is called Mahārāja and born of the family produced from an egg. The charter records the grant of the village of Turulla in the district (vishaya) of Tulla-śriṅgā of the Khiñjali Maṇḍala, to a Brāhmaṇa named Śubadāma of the Bhāradvāja gotra and the Kāṇva śākhā of the Yajur-veda caraṇa, who had emigrated from the village of Takārī in the Sāvathi (Śrāvastī) country and was an inhabitant of Bhaṭṭa-Tadala in the Oḍra country, on the fifth day of the bright half of the month of Phālguna of the 58th year of the king’s reign. The grant was drafted by the Sāndhi-vigrahika Himadatta, who also drafted the grant of the year 54.