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(i) The Ganjam Grant of Sainyabhita-Madhavaraja of the 
Gupta year 300. In this inscription Madhavaraja acknowledges 
hiniself to be a vassal of Sasanka, whom the use of the Gupta 
hana. In this inscription we have simply the mention of 
Sasanka as a suzerain. The earlier verses give the complete 
genealogy of the race of the act or from Sailodbhava to 
Madhavaraja. 
(ii) The Patiakella Grant of Sivaraja. This is a very short 
inscription, and in this we have simply the mention of the 
suzerainty of Sivaraja’; but we find a startlingly different 
method in these four grants, and in order to get at the method 
employed in “ai of these plates we shall have to analyse 
them separate 
(a) Grant . the time of Dharmmaditya, the year 3.—From 
this grant we learn that in the third year of the Emperor 
Dharmmaditya a subordinate King named Sthanudatta reigned 
in the Varaka-Mandala, The connection of the Visayapatt 
Ja&juva with the rest of the sentence is a certain, and Mr. 
Pargiter’s translation is still more indefini We feel surer 
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a parcel of land from them and to give it to a Brahmana; the 
headmen agree and lay down certain conditions. Vatabhoga 
having agreed to these conditions purchased the Jand and bes- 
towed it on a Brahmana named Candrasvamin. 
(b) The undated Grant of the time of Dharmmaditya. —In 
this inscription we bave some still more startling conditions. 
In the empire of Dharmmaditya a certain officer (Mahdapratt- 
hara-U fog named Nagadeva was placed in charge of Navya- 
— This name is also to be found in Mr. Stapleton’s 
eae the officers, the Elder Scribe aaa Kaya 
Nayasena, and the le eading men of the district, with a view to 
certain land. As before in the case of No. 1, the aaa was 
sold and granted to a Brahmana named Somasvamin 
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seems to have gained some additional titles, but the decay of 
the inscription prevents us from quoting them at length. I 
would, however, restore the word beginning with Aw as 
Kuméara-padi: y-amatya-U parika; but a new officer has been ap- 
pointed to the Varakamandala and his name is Vatsapalasva- 
1 Epi. Ind., vol. vi, p. 143. 2 Epi. Ind., vol. ix, p. 286. a 
