1916.] Talcher Plate of G ayadatu ngadeva. 295 



honoured sessions of sacrifices, and in whose case fortune, though 

 fickle (in the case of others), was steady. In his family, pos- 

 sessed of beauty, prowess and strength (was born) Salana- 

 tuhga; from him was born the illustrious and prosperous 

 Gayadatuhga, the devout worshipper of Siva, who had acquired 

 the five great sounds, whose prowess was brilliant, who was 

 proficient in law, who, like the moon, was born in the ocean of 



milk. 



In this mandala, the future feudatories of the towns, whose 



people conquered are being made to understand, ac- 

 cording to their rank, are asked about their health, and or- 

 dered that : Be it known to you (that) this village of Vamai- 

 talla up to its four boundaries attached to the Tuhkera vtsaya 

 (is being given) half of the village to Bhataputra Devasarma, 

 an emigrant from the village of Mutharutha, in the Varendra 

 mandala, an inhabitant of the village Savirabhata in the Odra 

 visaya , of the KaSy apa gotra , whose pravaras were Vatsy ay ana 

 and Naidhruva, who belonged to the Kanva Sakha of the Yajur- 

 veda, (and) who was the son of Padama (PadmaK (and) the 

 grandson of Dhanasarma; a quarter share of the mala is^ given 

 to Bhataputra Vrstideva, who was an emigrant from Savathi 

 (tfravasti), an inhabitant of the Yamagartta mandala (wh- 

 belonged)' to the Vatsya gotra (who had) pravaras with names 

 of the five sages, (who belonged) to the Kanva Sakha of the 

 Yajurveda, (and) who was the son of Llallada (and) grandson of 

 Dhahuka. A quarter share of the mala (is being given) to 

 Ramadeva , son of the bhataputra Vrstideva, with grass and water, 

 Rupya (? price) forty-four, in figure rupya 44; is given by us 

 by means of this copper-plate-grant. (Let it be) un-enterable 

 by Chatas and Bhatas so long as the moon and the star last. 

 (Here follows one of the usual imprecatory verses). 



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