The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v1.c17.s1.28

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(4) *Nagpur Museum grant.*—It was found in Satalma (or Satlama) in the Zamindari of Barpali, Sambalpur district. The inscription contains 44 lines, incised on three plates. The ends of the ring which holds the plates is secured by a circular seal which bears the usual figure of *Gaja-Lakṣmī* in relief. The inscription opens with "*Oṁ svasti!* From the fortunate Mura-sīma, where flights of merry pigeons rise up at the sound of the anklets of many beautiful maidens (and) whose fame is spread by bards coming from all quarters." Then follows the same verse which occurs at the end of No. 2 above. In the preamble of the grant which follows next (line 6 ff.) the donor and his father are mentioned with the same titles as in Nos. 1 and 2. The inscription then records the grant of the village of Satallamā³ attached to the *Kaśaloḍa-Viṣaya*⁴ to the *Bhaṭṭaputra* Sāntha-kara, who was a resident of the village of Murujunga, and had immigrated from the village of Puruṣamaṇḍapa in the *Oḍra-deśa*. Lines 38-41 give the 8th year in the victorious reign of *Pb.-M.-P.-Soma-kula-tilaka-Trikaliṅgādhipati* Janame-jaya-deva as the date of the grant. The *śāsana* was written by the *Kāyastha* Āllava, son of Kailāsa, who was attached to the *Mahāsandhivigrahin Rāṇaka* Malladatta, son of Dhāradatta. It was engraved by the same as in (1) above.⁵ (5-7) *The 3 Cuttack grants (i-iii).*—These were found in ploughing a field at Chaudwar, "on the opposite side of the river to Cuttack." They form what is called in these grants (lines 46 of *i*, 48 of *ii* and 50 of *iii*) a *triphalī-tāmra-śāsana* or set of 3 connected charters. They are each written on 3 plates, which are strung together by sealed rings as in Nos. 1 to 4. The name and titles of the donor and his father are also the same as in the other charters. They are all issued from the *Śrīmad-ārāma-Samāvāsitaḥ śrīmato vijaya-kaṭaka*, and record grants of the following villages to the *Bhaṭṭa*, the *Mahattama Sādhāraṇa*.¹