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The Madala Panji contains an interesting statement, attri- 

 buted to the king AnangabLimadeva, about the extent and the 

 income of the Orissa kingdom. This may be literally translated 

 thus : — 



"In the times of the kings beginning with the Kesarls, 

 up to me, the sixth ruler of the Ganga dynasty, the following 

 revenue in the kingdom of Orisa was realised. The revenue 

 was (then) realised from a kingdom that extended on the east 

 from the arka ksettra (Kanaraka) on the sea to Bhlmana<*ara 

 Dandapata on the west, from the Ivasabasa river on the north 

 to the Rsikulya river on the south. From this circle of lands 

 the revenue realised was jiti gold fifteen lakh Marhas. By the 

 grace of the Lord Jagannatha, by the blessings of Brahmans 

 and through faith in god Visnu, conquering with sword the 

 Bhuyas and Puranas (elders), I have extended my kingdom, 

 on the north from the KasabSsa to the river Danai Bur ha 

 (Jan Perdo or the old Damodar), on the south from the 

 Rsikulya to Rajamahendri Dandapata, and on the west from 

 Bhlmanagara to Sunupura on the borders of Boda. By 

 conquering on the three sides I got an (additional) revenue of 

 twenty lakhs Marhas in jiti gold." 



The ascription of this statement to Anangabhlmadeva is 

 certainly apocryphal. In the Madala Panji several things 

 which were done by his predecessors or successors were attri- 

 buted to this king, e.g., the building of the temple of Jagan- 

 natha, the causing of a survey of the kingdom and so forth. i 

 But otherwise the statement contains a real geographical 

 truth, as will be seen later on. 



The Madala Panji supplies us with the names of 31 Danda- 

 patas (including the Purusottama Ksettra as one) and of 110 

 Bisis. 



In the Ain Orissa was subdivided into five sarkars and 

 seventy-nine inahals. The arrangement of the Ain calls for 

 special attention on several points. Firstly, as remarked supra, 

 the list of mahals is given at the very end of the Bengal table, 

 and not alphabetically arranged with its sarkars. Secondly, the 

 sarkars of Orissa, unlike those of Bengal, are arranged geogra- 

 phically from north to south, and not alphabetically. Thirdly, 

 in the two southernmost sarkars, Kalanga and Rajamahen- 

 dra, no details of the mahals are forthcoming. The details 

 were evidently not known, as these sarkars had not come into 

 the occupation at all of the Mughals or their predecessors, the 

 Bengal Sultans. Fifthly, the mahals named correspond closely 

 with the Hindu Dandapatas where known. At the same time 

 their grouping into sarkars was unknown to the Hindus, being 

 the work apparently of the Musalman Sultans of Bengal The 

 Sarkar Katak which came last in the occupation of the Musal- 



chan 



Musalman 



