History of Orissa from the Earliest Times to the British Period v1.c19.65

v1.c19.65

The dates of the third group of Bhañja kings depend upon the identity of Jagadekamalla mentioned in the charter of Yaśobhañja. Who this Jagadekamalla was, we are not in a position to determine definitely. In the list of Northern inscriptions compiled by Kielhorn there is no Jagadekamalla and the only chief who could be contemporaneous with Yasobhañja is the Mehāra chief Jagamalla, a feudatory of the Chālukya king Bhīma II of Gujarat, of v. s. 1264-1207 A. D. In the list of Southern kings we know some Jagadekamallas : the Western Chālukya king Jayasiṁha II, Jagadekamalla II of the same dynasty ; Jagadekamalla Malladeva of the Bāna family of the Andhra country ; Jagadekamalla Permāḍi I of the Sinda family ; all of whom are too early for Yaśobhañja. Similarly Jagaddeva defeated by the Kākatīya Proḷa is also too early.¹ After Yaśobhañja and Jayabhañja we do not know what happened to the Bhañja kings. These two kings are certainly later than the Eastern Gaṅga kings, Anantavarman Choḍagaṅga and his immediate successors. They appear to have assumed the royal privilege of granting land during the rule of the weak later Gaṅgas who followed Narasiṁha I.