History of Orissa from the Earliest Times to the British Period v1.c19.9
History of Orissa from the Earliest Times to the British Period v1.c19.9
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The Bhañjas came to the forefront for the first time in the beginning of the 9th century. The earliest known Bhañja Chief is Neṭṭabhañja I, who lived in the 8th century and is known only from one landgrant recently discovered in the Baudh State. There is no genealogy of the donor in this inscription and the legend of the birth of the Gajapati Raja of Orissa and received Hariharpur as a dowry. Of his sons, the eldest, Adi Singh, held the *gadi* of the Mayurbhanj State. The annals of the Mayurbhanj Raj family, however, say that Jai Singh came to Puri with his two sons, Adi Singh and Jati Singh, the elder of whom was married to a daughter of the Puri Raja.