The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v1.c17.s1.47

v1.c17.s1.47

(1) *Sonpur grant (i).*—This was unearthed by a cultivator almost at the boundary of the villages of Jate Singa and Dungri, in the Sonpur State, some 14 miles N. E. of the town of Sonpur. The inscription contains 46 lines, engraved in three plates. Ring and seal as in the grants of his father. The inscriptions opens witb a praise of the confluence of the Mahanadi and the Tela, and then eulogises the king, who resides at Pattana-Suvarṇapura as follows:—