The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v1.c17.s5.126

v1.c17.s5.126

The inscription records that this last prince from Kaliṅganagara, in the *Saka* year (that is numbered by) the eyes of Hara (3), sky (0), sky (0), and moon (1), *i.e.*, 1003 (A.D. 1081), granted the village of Cākivāḍa in the Saṁvā-Viṣaya to the Rājarājeśvara (Śiva) whose temple was at the village of Reṅgujeḍ. Lines 30-33 give the date of the donor’s accession to the throne as the Śaka year that is numbered by the Nandas (9), apertures of the body (9), and planets (9), *i.e.*, 999, ‘while the sun was standing in the sign of Kumbha (A.D.1078).¹ The inscription does not give us the names of its writer or engraver.²