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iOOO.j M. M. Chakravarti — Inscription of Kapilendra Deva. , 
No. Dates. 
4. 1509-10 A.D. (iVth Agka of 
the Madala Panji). 
5, 1610 A.D. (February and 
March). 
6. 1511 A.D., Ratha festival. 
7. gaka 1436 = 1514-5 A.D. 
8. 1515-6 A.D. 
9. ? 1519-20 A.D. 
10. 1522 A.D. 
(32nd A:gka of Madala Pauji) 
References. 
Mahomedan historians, l.c. Hunter’s History 
of Orissa, Vol. II, pp. 9-10, and App. 
VIII, p. 193. 
Caitanya-carit-dmrta, beginnin^f of the 7th 
pariccheda, Madhyama Khanda ; Caitanya- 
marjgala, Antya Khanda, 2nd and 3rd 
Adhyaya. 
Cait.-car.-dmr., Madhya Khanda, 14th 
pariccheda; cf. Cait. may., Antya Khanda, 
5th Adhyaya, 
Two Inscriptions at Udayagiri [Sewell’s 
sketch of the southern dynasties, p. 48, 
note 4], 
An Inscription in the Varadaraja-svaml 
temple at Conjeveram [Chingleput Dis- 
trict Manual, pp. 435-6, l.c., Sewell’s 
sketch south, dyn., p. 119 and p. 48 note 4], 
Cait.-car.-dmr., Antya Khanda, 9th paric- 
cheda. 
Ferishta, l.c., Elphinstone’s Hist. Ind., 
App., p. 760: Hunter’s Hist. Orissa, Vol. 
II, App. VIII, p. 193. 
Pratapa Rudra’s accession year falls in 1496-97, as calculated from 
his only reliable Aijka date in the Jaj^annatlia temple. The time of 
his death is uncertain. According to Madala Panji he was succeeded 
first by his son Kalu-a Peva who reigned for a year and five months, and 
then by another of his sons Kakharu-a Deva who ruled for only three 
months. They were killed, one after the other, by their minister 
Govinda Vidyadhara. The latter then usurped the throne, and 
founded the small, dynasty known as the Bhoi. One inscription of 
Govinda Deva is known in the temple of Jagannatha. It is dated 4th 
Agka, Bicha ^iikla Trtiya, Tuesday, or 30th October, 1543 A.D. [J.A.S.B., 
Vol. LXII, 1893, pp. 101-2]. From this it is deducible that Govinda 
Deva began to reign in 1541-42 A.D. So that if the Madala Panji’s 
dates as regards Kakharu-a and KMu-a Devas be accepted, Pratapa Rud- 
ra’s last year would fall in 1539-40 A.D. According to a tradition noticed 
in the Jagannatha-carit-amrta, an Oriya biography of Jagannatha Dasa 
— a disciple of Caitanya and the founder of the Atibam subsect of Vais- 
navas in Orissa — Pratapa Rudra survived Caitanya. The latter died, 
according to his biographies, in 1455 9^ka or 1533-4 A.D. So then 
Pratapa Rudra might have been reigning at least in 1535 A.D., and 
there is nothing improbable in his reigning up to 1539-40 A.D. 
It was a stirring time. In the north in Bengal, Husain Shah had 
been consolidating his kingdom ; in the south the Vidyanagara monarchy 
