History of Orissa from the Earliest Times to the British Period v1.c22.56

v1.c22.56

We have, therefore, to admit that there were two Uddyota-keśarīs, the first being the successor of Mahābhavagupta II and the second the great-grandson of Vichitravīrya, a younger son of Mahābhavagupta I Janamejaya. Uddyota-keśarī I was perhaps the title adopted by Vichitravīrya after his succession to the throne. And he may have appointed his own son Abhimanyu to the government of the Kośala Rājya. He was succeeded in the Kośala Rājya by Someśvara of the same race, who gave the village of Atteṇḍā in the district of Uttaravallī in Kośala to a brāhmaṇa named Udayakara in the twelfth year of his reign. Mr. B. C. Mazumdar is certainly wrong in identifying this Someśvara with the king of that name mentioned in the Ratanpur inscription of Jajalla I.¹ Two other inscriptions of Uddyota-keśarī are known. They are to be found inside the Navamuni and Lalāṭendu caves on Khandagiri hill, three miles from Bhuvaneśvara. Both of these records seem to belong to Uddyota-keśarī I. The first to the year 18 and the second to the year 5 of the same king.²