History of Orissa from the Earliest Times to the British Period v1.c26.12

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The only other important record of the time of Anaṅga-bhīma III is the great Chāṭeśvara inscription. It consists of 25 lines of writing on a slab of stone attached to the temple of Chāṭeśvara in the village of Krishnapur, parganah Padmapur, of the Cuttack district. The inscription is not dated and records the erection of a temple of Śiva by one Govinda, a brāhmaṇa of the Vatsa gotra. According to this inscription either Govinda or Anaṅgabhīma III erected several pleasure-houses at Puruṣottama or Puri and performed the golden Tulā-puruṣa ceremony at that place. He also constructed many roads and excavated tanks.² According to Mr. Chakra-varti the temple of Chāṭeśvara was erected in circa. Śaka 1142-1220 A.D. The same authority would ascribe a small gold coin with the letters "Aṇa" to Anaṅgabhīma III instead of Anantavarman Choḍagaṅga,³ Anaṅgabhīma III died in 1238 A. D., and was succeeded by his son, Narasimha I, the second great king of the Gaṅga dynasty.