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Chaudhury, P.D.
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Chhabra, B.ch.
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DE, S. C.
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Desai, P. B.
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Dikshit, M. G.
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Krishnan, K. G.
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Desai, P. B
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Krishna Rao, B. V.
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Lakshminarayan Rao, N., M.A.
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Mirashi, V. V.
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Narasimhaswami, H. K.
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Pandeya, L. P.,
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Sircar, D. C.
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Venkataramayya, M., M.A.,
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Venkataramanayya, N., M.A.
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Index-By A. N. Lahiri
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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA
TWO GRANTS FROM DASPALLA
(2 Plates)
D. C. SIRCAR, OOTACAMUND
About the beginning of October 1952, I received for examination two copper-plate inscriptions
from Mr. P. Acharya, Superintendent of Research and Museum, Government of Orissa, Bhubaneswar. I was informed that the inscriptions had been found in the old Daspalla State, now merged
in Orissa as a sub-division of the Puri District, and that Mr. Satyanarayan6a Rajaguru, Assistant
Curator of the Orissa State Museum, Bhubaneswar, had prepared a paper on them for publication
in the Orissa Historical Research Journal. Mr. Acharya, however, was kind enough to permit me
to edit both the inscriptions in the Epigraphia Indica. I am extremely thankful to him for this
kindness.
A.─Daspalla Plate of Dēvānanda ; Year 184
This copper plates, as I learn from Mr. Acharya, was found early in 1951 in the course of the
re-excavation of an old tank in the village of Chikankhandi in the Jormu Pargana of Daspalla.
The Pargana is situated on the right bank of the Mahānadī while the town of Daspalla lies on the
left bank of the river. The plate was presented to the Orissa State Museum in June 1951 by
Mr. Dasarathi Misra who is a teacher of the M. E. School at Jilinda in the Daspalla Sub-division.
The inscription is written on both sides of the single plate measuring 10″X7·45″X·13″. A
bronze seal, having the shape of an expanded lotus and measuring 3·25″ in diameter, is soldered
about the middle of the proper right end of the plate. It resembles the seal attached to the charters
of the family to which the issuer of the grant under discussion belonged. The border of the
pericarpial portion (about 2·24″ in diameter) of this lotus-shaped seal is raised. In the hollow thus
formed, the seal proper is countersunk. The central part of the space on the surface of the seal
is occupied by the legend in one line : śrī-Dēvānandadēvasya, the subscript y in the last akshara
being considerably lengthened towards the left so that the entire legend looks as doubly underlined.
Above the legend is the figure of a couchant bull to proper right, with the emblems of a conch and a
crescent above it. Below the legend there is the representation of an expanded lotus. The seal is
fixed to the plate by means of two knobs running through holes made in the usual projection of
the plate. These are covered by a lump of metal forming the back of the seal. Some eight or
nine lines of writing about the middle of the plate on both its sides are shorter owing to the
encroachment of the lower part of the seal. The plate together with the seal weighs 143½ tolas.
In respect of palaeography, language and orthography, the present record closely resembles the published charters of the family to which its issuer belonged. In a few cases (cf.
sarvadā in line 11, sarva in line 23) the superscript r reminds us of a similar form of it in the inscriptions of the Pālas of Bengal and Bihar.1 The charter is dated in the year 100 80 4, i.e., 184
(the symbol for 100 resembling the akshara lu) of an unspecified era which appears to be identical
with the reckoning used in the records of the imperial family of the Bhauma-Karas of Orissa as well
as in those of some of their feudatories, This era is now often identified with the Harsha era of 606
A. C. and in that case the year 184 of our inscription would correspond to 792 A.C. But it has
been noticed that the palaeography of the inscriptions dated in the era in question points to a
considerably later epoch for it. As will be seen in our discussion on Śatrubhañja’s plates edited
below, the beginning of this era now seems to be nearly two centuries later than that of the Harsha
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[1] See above, pp. 2 and 49.
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