History of Orissa from the Earliest Times to the British Period v1.c19.42.2

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The object of the charter was to grant the village of Mūla-Machhāḍa (the original village minus the outlying hamlets) in the district of Machhāḍa-khaṇḍa to a Brāhmaṇa named Bhaṭṭa-Purandara of the Rauhita *gotra* and of the Vājasaneya *caraṇa* of the Yajur-veda who was an immigrant from the village of Mamana in the district of Taḍisamā in Varendri. The grant was composed by the *Sandhi-vigrahika* Stambha and engraved by the Akshaśāli Kumārachandra. The order was sealed by the queen from Trikaliṅga through the agency of the minister Bhaṭṭa Keśavadeva.¹ Mr. Hira Lal has wrongly identified the village of Mamana with Mandara in the Ghumsur *Taluga* and Taḍisamā with Taḍasiṅgā in the same *Taluga*, on the supposition that the name of the province is Varebdhi; but this is clearly Varendhī and equal to Varendri or Northern Bengal.¹ The only other known inscription of Vidyādhara-bhañja was discovered in the Ghumsur *Taluga* of the Ganjam district, while two charters of Neṭribhañja II and one of Vidyādharabhañja were discovered at Aska in the same district. The Ghumsur plates were also issued from Vijayavañjulvaka. They agree in all respects with the recently discovered charter of the same king. The object of the second charter is to record the grant of the village of Tuṇḍurava in the district of Rāmalavva to a Brāhmaṇa of the Aupamanyava *gotra* and of the Vahvṛicha *śākhā* named Bhaṭṭa Dārukhaṇḍi.