The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v1.c17.s5.144

v1.c17.s5.144

(11) *Vizagapatam grant (ii).*—Found as No. 1. It contains 117 lines engraved on 5 plates. The seal⁶ and language as in No. 1; but the characters 'are ordinary old Kanarese of the regular type of the period.' In the introductory portion, the genealogy of the donor is drawn from Ananta (Viṣṇu).⁷ It records the grant of the village of Tāmarakhaṇḍi in the Samvā-viṣaya⁸ to a person named Mādhava by Anantavarmā-*mahārāja Rājādhirāja-Rāja-Parameśvaraḥ* Pb.-*Parama-vaiṣṇavaḥ Parama-brahmaṇyaḥ Mātā-pitṛ-pādānudhyātaḥ* Codagaṅga-deva, 'decorated with the rank of entire sovereignty over the whole of Utkala and residing at the town of Sindurapora,' in the *Śaka* year numbered by the sky (0), oceans (4), sky (0), and moon (1), *i.e.*, 1040 (A.D. 1118-19).¹