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30. The Stambhesvari. 
By B. C. Mazumpar, B.L., M.R.A.S. 
Communicated with a note by R. D. Banzrai, M.A., M.R.AS., 
Indian Museum, Calcutta. 
NOTE, 
the 
fortune of examining the Puri plates of Kulastambhadeva, and 
I think Mr. Monmohan Chakravarti’s transcript cannot be 
improved.! 
I believe Mr. Chakravarti is right in assuming that the 
king Kulastambhadeva is descended from the Calukyas. In a 
copperplate grant which I have recently received through the 
Superintendent, Orissa Feudatory States, from the Chief of 
Talcher, Kulastambhadeva is described as an ornament of the 
Silki dynasty, who were famed in the Three Worlds: 
ia renavah svasti tribhuvana-vidite Sulki-raja-vamsa- 
bhusana-raja. 
—Obverse, 1. 2. 
Now Siilki seems to be the equivalent of Solanki, which is 
certainly derived from Calukya or Caulukya. The antiquity 
of the name Stambheévari is apparent from this plate also. In 
the ninth line it is mentioned that the king Ranastambhadeva 
obtained a boon from the Goddess Stambhesvari : 
Sri-Stambhesvari-labdha-vara-prabhavo mahanubhavah Para- 
ma-mahesva- 
10. —ro mata-pitr-padanudhyay? samadhigata-panca-maha- 
sabdo Ma- 
ll. —harajadhirajah Sri Ranastambhah........ 
—Obverse, ll. 9-11. 
1 J.A.S.B., Pt. I, pp. 123-27. 
