270 ON ORISSA. PROPER 



is the measurement undertaken by him of the whole of the land comprized 

 within his dominions, and the arrangements connected with that procedure. 

 We are informed that under the superintendence of the principal ministers 

 Damodar Bar Panda and Isan Patnaik, the whole country from the Ganges 

 (Hoogley) to the Godaveri, and from the sea to the frontier of Sonepur, was 

 measured out with the rods called Nal and Padkeh. The results were as 

 follows, viz. 



Total contents, (each batti containing' 20 bigas,) * - Battis G2,28,00C? 



Deduct, Ground occupied by sites of hills, beds of nullahs, 



towns, &c. and land irreclaimably waste, - - - - : - 14,80,000 



Remains, 47,4 <,000 



Of this quantity 24,30,000 battis* are stated to have been reserved as 

 the Raja's Nijkarch, khaliseh or royal domain, and the remainder 2'J, 18,000 

 battis were assigned for the support of his chiefs, armies, officers of state, 

 brahmins, elephants, &c„ 



Connected with and illustrative of the above proceeding, a highly curi- 

 ous speech of the Raja's is given in the annals of the Puri temple, of which 

 J shall here present an abstract translation. Having been warned in a 

 dream by Parameswara (Sri Jagannath,) that it was proper he should offer 

 liis devotions at Puri, the Raja proceeded to that place in the 12th year 

 of his reign. After performing the usual worship with great pomp and 

 solemnity, he collected about him the princes of his family, vassal lords, 

 and chief officers of state, and held the following discourse : "Hear, Oh 

 Chiefs and Princes, the arrangements which I have established for the ma- 



* The amount of the estimate In square yards or miles, must depend on the size of the biga, wLicfe, 

 is not indicated. If we assume it at the present average of the province, the dominions of the Gajapa? 

 lis included at that period more than 40,000 square miles, 



