History of Orissa from the Earliest Times to the British Period v1.c22.29.2

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The charter was issued in the third year of the reign of Mahāśivagupta-Yayāti on the 5th day of the bright half of the month of Vaiśākha and was written by the Rāṇaka Rudradatta, the nephew of Siṃhadatta and the grandson of the Sāndhivigrahi Harṣadatta.¹ This charter was issued from Suvarṇapura or Sonpur. The second record of the king is the Paṭna plates of the year eight; they were issued from the Royal Camp at Vinītapura and record the grant of some land in the village of Talakajja with a river named Turadāśānariyā in the district of Sānulā in the Kośala country to a Brāhmaṇa named Kāmadeva of the Kāśyapa gotra and the Vājasaneya-Madyandina branch, who was an inhabitant of Jalajaḍḍa in Kośala and an emigrant from Mādhvila in the eighth year of the King's reign on the thirteenth day of the bright half of Mārgaśīrṣa. The order was written by the Mahāsāndhivigrahi and Rāṇaka Dhāradatta.² The third record of this king, the Kaṭak plates of the ninth year, is historically the most important. It is the first inscription of this dynasty which refers to a place in Orissa proper. The first part of this inscription is in verse and the name of the place from which the charter was issued is introduced in prose after the fourth verse as Tasmāt Śrī-Vinītapurāt, "from that Vinītapura." The next three verses are devoted to Janamejaya and his son, Yayāti. The prose portion gives the complete Imperial titles both to Mahābhavagupta I and Mahāśivagupta.