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be found on the Kudopali plate of the 13th year of the reign of the king. The plates were discovered underground in the village of Kudopali in the Bargarh Tahsil of the Sambalpur district and were issued from Yayātinagara. There is no metrical portion in the beginning of this record. It is a charter issued by a feudatory of Mahābhavagupta II, named Māṇḍalika and Rānaka Puñja, son of Voḍā, of the Māthara family. The donor was in residence at a place named Bāmaṇḍapāṭi when the order was issued. The charter records the gift of the village of Loisarā in the Maṇḍala of Giḍāṇḍā to a Brāhmaṇa of the Kauṇḍinya Gotra and the Kāṇva Śākhā named Nārāyaṇa, who was an emigrant from the village of Hastipada in the 13th year of the reign of the king. As the charter was not issued by Mahābhavagupta II Bhīmaratha, but by his feudatory Puñja, he is mentioned as being in residence at Yayātinagara while the grant was issued by Puñja from Vāmaṇḍapāṭi. Details about the date such as the month and the day of the fortnight are omitted.¹ Vāmaṇḍapāṭi has been identified with the State of Bamra, the old capital of which is sixty miles north-east of Binka, Loisarā still exists under the same name in the Bargarh Tahsil of the Sambalpur district, sixteen miles south-west of Sambalpur town. Giḍāṇḍā is perhaps the same as Siḍāṇḍā which is Sāraṇḍā in the Bargarh Tahsil, eleven miles south-west of Sambalpur town.²