History of Orissa from the Earliest Times to the British Period v1.c23.3.4

v1.c23.3.4

By this charter the king granted the village of Tāmara-cheruvu in the district of Varāha-varttanī on the full day of the month of Mārgaśira on the occasion of a Lunar eclipse to a number of Brāhmaṇas of different gotras and charanas. The order was issued on the 15th day of Chaitra of the year 128 and the grant was drafted by Śaṅkaradeva, son of the Amātya Devachandra. It was written by Āditya, son of Vinayachandra. The name of the writer proves that the donor was a generation removed from the donor of the Chikakol plates, as in the year 128 Vinayachandra, who had written the grants of the years 87 and 91, had been succeeded by his son Āditya.² The next grant of the same king is still later in date. It was also discovered in Chikakol and issued from the city of Kaliṅga. The charter records the grant of the village of Pālamūla in the district of Korosataka Pañchālī to two brāhmaṇas named Skandaśarman and Lalitaśarman of the Kautsa gotra on the 7th tithi of the month of Māgha and the order was issued three days later, i. e., on the 10th Māgha of the year 146. The order was recorded by the Mahāmahattara Gaurīśarman, but the name of the scribe is Bhavadatta.³ In the last two plates the *biruda*, *Rājasimha*, of the king, Indravarman, is omitted, an additional proof, according to certain writers, of the want of identity between Indravarman Rājasimha of the year 91 and of the later grants. The third item in the series of proofs is the Purle plates of Indravarman of the year 149.