Vol. VII, No. 7.] The Stambhesvari. 447 
(V.8.] 
tion of some portion of the hoo — be attempted in spite of 
wrong spelling and bad gra 
at Stambhe$vari was i thie family goddess of the grantor 
is clear ae the fourth line of Plate A. Whatever may be the 
form of the names of men, it cannot be said that the grantor 
belonged to Southern India. The inference of my friend Babu 
Manomohan Chakravarti that the grantor belonged to Calukya 
line cannot easily be accepted. Wrong spelling of words in 
the plates cannot justify us in changing Sulki into Calukya 
On reference to the wrong spellings it can only be said a the 
plates were engraved at a time when the vowel ‘‘r 
d‘‘ru’’ in Orissa. In the lates "of 
the Trikalinga te tiny we get from the wrong spelling the 
** pafica. hough the original plates cannot be obtained now 
for comparison, it can be easi ily said that ‘“‘ya’’ coul 
misread for ‘‘pa’’ and ‘‘sca’’ for ‘‘fica.’’ This only shows 
This leads us to fix the date of the plates after the time of 
Mahabhava Gupte and his successors. 
Then again the concluding lines of the charter are the 
same as we get in the charters of the Trikalinga Guptas (Epi- 
graphia Indica, Vol. III, pp. 323 et seq.). In the light of the 
text of the plates of the Trikalinga Guptas I am inclined to 
Datta, etc., of the plates of the Trikalinga Guptas. 
e that as it may, since no definite information can be 
obtained regarding the grantor who had StambheSvari for the 
family goddess, it is safe not to fe any inference at all 
regarding his original home and ori 
us far is certain, that some or after the reigns of 
Mahabhava Gupta and his successors, who assumed the title 
Trikalingadhipati, a Raja made a grant of lands in Kalinga or 
Orissa and this Raja had Stambhesvari for family goddess 
Referring to the Epigraphie records of Assam we find that 
once by about the eleventh century or a little earlier, the 
Rajas Salastambha, Bigrahastambha, Palakastambha, Bijaya- 
stambha and others established a kingdom in Assam. This 
Salastambha has been spoken of as a great chief of ‘‘ the 
chas’”’ (Gait’s ‘‘ History of Assam,’’ p. 27). Who can say 
that the Saiva Kulastambha was not Mleccha to begin with, 
and did not belong to the Mleccha clan of Orissa tradition, 
which possessed Orissa for some time ? 
