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THE ANTIQUITIES OP MtTKHALINGAM. 
tracing the descent of Anantavarma-Chodagangadeva. The 
inscription also gives some historical information from which 
the following facts are extracted : — " Kdmdriiava I., one 
of the five sons of Virasimha (a remote ancestor of Ananta- 
varman), gave over his country to his paternal uncle and, 
with his brothers, set out to conquer the earth and came to 
the mountain Mahondra. Having there worshipped the god 
GSkarnasvchninfthrough his favour he obtained the excellent 
crest of a hnl\(vrishahhaldnchhana)-, and then,decorated with 
all the insignia of universal sovereignty, having descended 
from the summit of the mountain Mahendra, and being 
accompanied by his four younger brothers, Kdincirnava I. 
conquered (king) Bdldditya who had gx-own sick of war, and 
took possession of the Kalinga countries. And his capital 
{rdjadhdm) was the city named Jantdvura. Having deco- 
rated his younger brother Ddndrnava with the necklace 
(kanthikd) of royalty as a token that he should succeed 
him in that kingdom, he gave to Gundrnava the Aiahavd.di- 
vishaya ; to Mdrasimha the Soddmandcda ; to Vajrahasta 
the Kantahavartani. And thus for thirtj'-six years he 
governed the Kalinga country." — " His {Ddndrnava' s) son, 
the second Kdmd-mava, reigned for fifty years ; his city was 
the city named Nagam in which he built a lofty temple for 
an emblem of the god Isa in the liiiga form, to which he 
had given the name of MadJiuMsa because it was produced 
from a madhnJca tree." 
19. The account of the towns Jayantapura and Nagara 
and of Madhukesa's temple, as given in the Kshetramd- 
hdtmya (vide para. 15 above), tallies with what is stated in 
this copper-plate inscription. Jantdvura in the plate is a 
mistake for Jaya)tta].nira. It lias been seen that all the 
inscriptions on the temple refer to the god as Madhukesa. 
The name of the village was until some yeai's ago 
3Iadh ukesva ram. when it was eluiuged iuto Miikhalingam. 
