2 - Charters of the Somavamsi Kings. [January, 1905, 
us the names of four successive kings, viz., (1) Sivagupta, 
(0) Maha-Bhavagupta I alas Janamejaya, (3) Maha- he 
gupta alias Yayati, on (4) Maha-Bhavagupta II al’as Bhim 
rathas Each of the first three was the father of his successor. 
They call. es as aeiiae of the Somakula (lunar race) 
and as the ‘lords of the three Kalingas.’ They grant lands 
in ee different districts of the Kogala country. th the grant 
B, C and D, issued in the thirty-first year of his reign, 
Bhavigupte i is referred to by the title Kogalendra (lord of Kosala). 
Charter J is said to have been written by a clerk of the office of the 
‘minister for peace and war’ of the Kogala country. These facts 
prove beyond doubt that these kings ruled over the Kosala country, 
or at least a part of it. About five of the copper-plate charters were 
found in the Native State of Patna in the Central Provinces, and 
The charters of Maha-Sivagupta and his son are issued from 
Vinitapura and Yayatinagara, towns or a town on the Mahanadi 
river. The village granted se the = al ¥ is said to be situa 
in Daksina-Tosala* which may istake for Daksina- 
Koégala or Southern Kosala. These facts chia that it was Dak- 
shina-Kogala (or southern Kosala), identifiable with the south- 
eastern ts of ae Sop Provinces, which was included ix in 
the cage of 
ich the term occurs wold. sugges another meaning. a 
word Tosali as the name of some country in or near Orissa is as 
-old at least as the third ee -C. The. two separate edicts of Asoka 
found in rg version of Dhauli in Orissa are addressed to the officials at 
Tosali, The expressions ‘‘Ubhaya Tosalyam” (i.e., i th divisions of 
Tosali) and at na Tosalyam Franga (doubtful) visaye ” (7.e., i ranga 
vigaya or district in Southern hee oot in an old co late grant found 
some Native State in Orissa written in the old Gupta characte 
and cannot be of a date later ine the sth. Century A.D. It is clear from the 
above that Tosali was a country very near to, if not comprised in, the posses- 
hen we take Daksina Tosala as a mistake f or Daksina Kofala (Southern 
Kosala if Only two small fragments of the plage w mentioned above were found. 
The ion was ve ‘ any king co ald 
be he few words that could be satisfactorily deciphered convin 
me that it was certainly a land-gran’ rye. received with the 
above’ ents. was circular in shape and had a diameter of two-and-a- 
half inches, One face of it Raesoae srs in its upper half a female figure, seated 
on 4 lotus, with two elephants (one on each side) havin g their trunks up- 
shag 4 over her head. This antblent’ is tig to that found on the seals of 
the Somayamfi kings under notice. Ther a line of writing below the 
emblem, but it was too much damaged to We Solon 
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