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at the time of Bhoga from the end of evening Dhūpa up to the time of Baṛasingār (bed time). It refers to a number of dancers from Telingana and that besides dancing, four Vaishṇava singers will sing Jayadeva’s *Gita-Govinda*. A record on the right side was incised on the 19th *Aṅka* and records that Kapilendra having conquered “the side of Mallikā Pārisā,” meaning perhaps the Sulṭān of Gaur or Mālik Padshāh, on his return, gave to Jagannātha one *sāṭī* known as Puṇḍarikagopa. Another inscription below this one was incised in the 31st *Aṅka*=12th July 1459 (o. s.) and records that the king held court in the audience hall of the southern block of rooms and registered a vow to bestow all precious things possessed by the king on Brāhmaṇas.¹ The particular gateway of the *Jagamohana*, on the sides of which these records were to be found up to 1910, is called Jaya-Vijaya. Only one inscription of Kapilendra has been discovered in the outer door of the *Jagamohana* of the temple of Kṛittivāsa or Liṅgārāja at Bhuvaneśvara. It records an order passed on the 9th *Aṅka*=7th year and addressed by king Kapilendra to his feudatories in the presence of the Royal spiritual preceptors Bāsu *Mahāpātra* and Bhuvaneśvara *Mahāpātra*. It runs thus. “All kings in my kingdom of Orissa should work for the good of the paramount sovereign and should keep to virtuous ways and not remain in bad ways. If they act badly towards their sovereign, they will be expelled from the kingdom and all their property confiscated.”² The Jagannātha inscription of the 35th *Aṅka* and the Bhuvaneś- vara inscription of the 4th Aṅka are by nature proclamations to the people. No other stone inscription in Orissa is of the same purport. These inscriptions give a number of titles to Kapilendra which are new in Orissa, namely, Gajapati, Gauḍeśvara, and Nava-koṭi-Karṇāṭa-Kalavarageśvara. The title Gajapati has been used to denote kings of Orissa for a very long time but no other Hindu king of Orissa, not even Narasimha I who had beseiged the city of Gauḍa, had dared to assume the title Gauḍeśvara. It may refer to the conquest of a part of Bengal by Kapilendra and perhaps the reference to Mālikā Pārisā, whose conquest is recorded in the Jagannātha inscription of the 19th Aṅka, is to some officer of the independent Sulṭāns of Bengal. After the fall of Shamsuddin Aḥmad Shāh, the grandson of Rajah Gaṇeśa of Gauḍa, the Musalmans of Bengal under the leadership of Sulṭān Nāṣirudīn Maḥmud Shāh of Bengal reconquered south-western Bengal. The campaign against Mālikā Pārisā took place before the 19th Aṅka of Kapilendra, the 15th year of his reign=1449-50 A. D., and therefore fell within the reign of that Sulṭān (1442-59 A. D.) Kapilendra certainly possessed the right to call himself the master of ninety millions of people of Karṇāṭa, as he had conquered the eastern coast as far as Tanjore and Trichinopoly. But it is doubtful whether he had ever captured or invaded Gulbarga, the ancient capital of the Bahmanīs. But there is nothing improbable in it for a king who had approached within twenty miles of the new capital, Bidar. Kapilendra died, according to local tradition as recorded in the Mādalā Pāñji on the banks of the river Kṛṣṇā on Pausha Kṛṣṇa, 3, Tuesday, a date which cannot be verified. The traditional date of the death of Kapilendra as recorded by Stirling¹ and second-rate compilers like W. W. Hunter are incorrect. As the 2nd Aṅka of his son and successor Purushottama fell in April 1470, Kapilendra must have died before that date. His latest known date is his 41st Aṅka or 33rd year=Sunday 14th December 1466 A.D. The calculations of late Mr. Monmohan Chakravarti² are corroborated by the Burhān-i-Ma’āṣir which states :