History of Orissa from the Earliest Times to the British Period v1.c23.28

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A number of kings whose names end with the affix varman may be connected with the Gaṅga dynasty, but their records are not dated and they cannot be located definitely. One of these is a Indravarman who issued a grant from Śvetakādhishṭhāna and is probably the same as Indravarman I. The grant is not dated and the name of the village granted is not given in the short note.¹ The second is that of a king named Sāmantavarman who gave the village of Vaṭagrāma in the district of Himaṇigosa to a Brāhmaṇa of the Bhāradvāja gotra named Govinda-śarman by an undated grant.² The inscription of Chandavarman already quoted above is very probably a Śālaṅkāyana record. It was issued in the year six of the king's reign, who is called the lord of Kaliṅga. The charter records the grant of the village Kohetura to a Brāhmaṇa of the Bhāradvāja gotra on the fifth day of the bright half of the month of Chaitra of the year six.³ A king named Pṛthivīvarman, the son of Mahendravarman, calls himself a king of Kaliṅga of the Gaṅga family in a set of plates discovered in the Ganjam district. By this charter, which is undated and issued from Śvetka, the king grants the village (illegible) in the district of Jānorā to a Brāhmaṇa of the Vātsa gotra on the occasion of Vishuva saṅkrānti. Pṛthivīvarman is mentioned as the lord of a city named Kolāhalā, which Mr. L. Rice takes to be Kolar in the Mysore State, but, as the inscription mentions the god Gokarṇeśvara on Mahendra hill, the king must be an eastern Gaṅga king.⁴ King Śaktivarman mentioned in the Ragolu plates of the Ganjam district calls himself “Lord of Kaliṅga.” The charter was issued from Piṣṭapura, i. e., modern Piṭṭapuram, but the grant is not dated and no details are known about the family of the king except that he calls himself a Magadha.¹ Similarly king Umāvarman calls himself Lord of Kaliṅga in the plates discovered in the Pālakonda taluga. The charter records the grant of the village of Bṛihatproshtha to a Brāhmaṇa named Haridatta on the 20th day of the month of Mārgaśīrsha of the year 30, evidently of the king's reign. The order was issued from Siṃhapura.²