History of Orissa from the Earliest Times to the British Period v1.c22.45

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Mahāśivagupta-Yayāti was succeeded sometime after the 28th year of his reign by Mahābhavagupta II, surnamed Bhīmaratha. The earliest inscription of this king is to be found on the Katak plates of the year three. This inscription begins with a long metrical portion in which are included two words in prose stating that the order was issued from Yayātinagara. The verses give the names, *i. e.*, birudas, of three generations of kings of this dynasty, Janamejaya, his son Yayāti and his son Bhīmaratha. The prose portion gives the usual Imperial titles to Mahābhavagupta II and his father Mahāśivagupta. The charter records the grant of the village of Gauḍa-siminilli in the district of Sakhaṅgadyanha in Kośala to a Brāhmaṇa named Rāṇaka Rachchho of the Kausika *gotra* and the Kauthuma *caraṇa* of the Sāma Veda, an inhabitant of the village of Siṅgoā in the Devī-bhoga district of Kośala, who was an emigrant from the village of Kāśillī in the *Maṇḍala* of Śrāvastī on the occasion of a solar eclipse. The order was issued on the third day of the bright half of Mārgaśīrsha of the year three of the reign of the king. The king is called Bhīmaratha in the closing portion of the inscription. The order was written by a Kāyastha named Maṅgaladatta under the superintendence of the the Sāndhi-vigraha Siṅgadatta (Siṃhadatta), who wrote the last inscription of Mahāśivagupta Yayāti.¹ The village of Siṅgoā has been identified with Singhar in the Khariar Zamindari in the extreme south of the Raipur district, the district of Devī-bhoga with Deo-bhog in the Bindra-Nawagarh Zamindari in the same district. The only other known inscription of Mahābhavagupta II—Bhīmaratha is to The page provided is blank.