The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v1.c17.s1.75

v1.c17.s1.75

(1) *Cuttack grant.*—This is reported to have been found “at Cuttack or closely in its neighbourhood,” but there is no precise information about its find-spot. It contains 73 lines which are incised as usual on three plates. The figures on the seal is damaged and nothing can be distinguished now. The inscription opens with a description of the charms of the city of Yayātinagara on the Mahanadi. Then in five verses it praises king Janamejaya, his son Yayāti, and his grandson Bhīmaratha. Then we are told that from Yayātinagara Mahābhavagupta (titles and epithets as usual for him and his father), on the occasion of a solar eclipse, granted the village of Gauḍasimiṇilligrāma in the Kosala-sākhaṅgadyanhā-*Viṣaya* to the *Rāṇaka* Rāccho, an immigrant from the Śrāvastī-*Maṇḍala* and a resident of Singoāgrāma¹ in the Devibhoga-Viṣaya² in Kosala. Lines 66-69 are devoted to the praise of the *Sandhivigrahin* Singadatta. Lines 69-70 state that the *Śāsana* was written by the *Kāyastha* Maṅgaladatta. The grant is dated in lines 70-73 in the 3rd year of Bhīmaratha. It ends with the name of the engraver, the *vijñānin* Madhumatta.³