The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v1.c17.s2.38

v1.c17.s2.38

(3) *Banpur grant*.—This was found in the possession of a Brahman family of Kumurang Sasan, a village near Banpur in the Puri district, some 5 miles from the Balugan Station of the B. N. Ry. It is reported to have been discovered in the deserted village of Mansinghapur, about 7 miles from Kumurang. The inscription consists of 45 lines, incised on a single plate. It records the grant of Kaṇṭsarānagarī-*grāma* in the Khiḍiṅgahāra-*Viṣaya* in the *Kuṅgada-Maṇḍala* of *Dakṣiṇa-Tosalā* to some Brahmans by the donor of No. 1. It is dated in the 18th year of an unspecified era. At the end of the inscription occurs the name of the *Mahākṣapaṭalādhikṛta Rāṇaka* Bhūṣaṇa Nāga and *Mahākṣapaṭalika Bhogī* Padmasena. Genealogy of the donor nearly the same as in No. 1, with the following exceptions: *Śrīmad-Gayāḍa* and others is substituted for ‘Maṅgapāḍa and others,’ Lolabhāra is substituted for Loṇabhāra and Unmaṭṭa-siṁha is said here to have been born in the family of Kara kings. Everything else as in No. 1.¹