The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v1.c17.s1.103

v1.c17.s1.103

Some scholars have further identified the Uddyotakesarin of the Bhuvanesvar epigraph with the prince of that name whose inscriptions of his 5th and 18th years were discovered in Orissa in the Lalatendu Kesari and Navamuni caves respectively.⁴ Thus according to the proposed identifications all these princes bearing the name Uddyotakesarin were identical. As an illustration however of the uncertainties of the history of this period of Orissa the interesting fact may be mentioned that the scholar who admits the identity of the two Uddyotakesarins of the Sonpur and Bhuvanesvar inscriptions refers the latter epigraph to the 12th century,¹ while the scholar who identifies the two Uddyotakesarins of the Bhuvanesvar and the Navamuni cave inscriptions refers the latter record to ‘about the 10th century.’²