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 by the Comilla inscription, which is on the pedestal of a 



Nartteswara Shiva. 



The country round Kamta is at present known as the 

 Purganah of Patikara. We learn from the Maharajaweng that 

 there was still a royal dynasty reigning in those parts in the 

 latter part of the eleventh century a.d. and in the beginning of 

 the twelfth century a.d. A prince of Patikara was united to 

 a daughter of Kyansittha king of Pegu, and king Alangsithu 

 (a.d. 1035 to a.d. 1160), the fruit of this union, married a 

 princess of Patikara. The existence of a royal dynasty in 

 these parts in the twelfth century a.d. is further attested by a 

 copperplate inscription of Ranabankamalla, which was found 

 in 1803 in the Lalmai Hills midway between Comilla and 

 Kamta and which was sent to the Asiatic Society of Bengal by 

 Mr. Elliot, the then District Magistrate of Comilla. A reading 

 of it was published by Mr. Colebrooke as early as 1807, in the 

 Asiatic Researches, Vol. IX, p. 398, and it has been reprinted 

 in Vol. II, p. 241, of his essays. A revised reading ought to be 

 published by this time if the plate be still in the possession of 

 the Society. 



