The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v1.c17.s2.29

v1.c17.s2.29

(1) Ganjam grant (i).—It was found in the office of the Collector of Ganjam; find-spot unknown. The inscription contains 43 lines, incised on both sides of a single plate. On its proper right is soldered a seal resting on an expanded lotus-flower, bearing the figure of a couchant bull, and below it is the legend *Śrīmad-Daṇḍi-mahādevī*. The characters of the inscription may be classed together with those of the Nadagam (in Ganjam) plates of Vajrahasta of *Śaka Saṁvat* 979 (A. D. 1058), and with those of some other inscriptions belonging to about the 12th or 13th centuries A. D.² The grant opens as usual with *Oṁ svasti*, and then comes in the 3rd line the name of the donor's place of residence : *Śrīmad Guheśvara-pāṭaka-nivāsī vijaya-skandhavārāt*. Next comes the following genealogy of the donor :