History of Orissa from the Earliest Times to the British Period v1.c22.10.3

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The inscription records the grant of the village of Satallamā in the district of Kaśaloḍā to a Brāhmaṇa named Santhakara who was an inhabitant of Murujuṅga, an emigrant from the village of Purushamaṇḍapa in the Oḍra country and belonged to the Gautama gotra and the Mādhyandina sākhā. The king is once more mentioned as Janamejaya in the concluding portion of the inscription along with all of his titles. The charter was issued on the twelfth day of the bright half of the month of Kārtika of the eighth year of the king's reign. The order was written by the Rānaka and Mahāsāndhivigrahi Malladatta, son of Dharadatta and incised by the *Kāyastha* Allava.¹ The village of Śatallamā still exists as Satlama in the Sambalpur district and the district of Kaśaloḍa has been identified with Kusarda, fifteen miles south-west of Bargarh and ten miles north-east of Satlama.² Three connected charters of this king were issued in the 31st year of his reign by which three villages were granted to one and the same person, a *Brāhmaṇa* named Sādhāraṇa. The first of these charters was brought to notice by the late Raṅgalāla Banerjea in 1875. In this record, issued from a garden or *Arāma*, the king is called *Kośalendra*, in the last but one line and the donee, Sādhāraṇa, a minister in l. 37. The *biruda* Janamejaya is not used at all. The grant was issued on the 13th day of the bright half of Mārgaśīrsha of the year 31 of the king's reign.