1895.] 
inscriptions of the King Nrsimha-deva. 
135 
stead land with a house, of a Brahmana named Svapne^vara. He 
was of Kaundinya Gotra and a reader of the Kanva fakha of the 
Yajur-veda. His land was in area, four batis or 80 acres. 
In describing the boundaries, several villages are named, two of 
which—Bhakharsahi and Makulunda still exist within the Puri Dis¬ 
trict. The approximate position of the villages Kimnari alias Vijaya- 
narasirhhapura, would be long. 86° 5' 30" by lat. 20° 22' 30". 
In B, the villages, Saiso and Radaso-o were granted to a Brahmana 
named Devaratha Acarya of Atreyasa gotra and reader in the Kanva 
pakha of the Yajur-veda. They appear to have been granted to him as 
the sevak in the temple of Ugre^vara-deva. In area the lands were 30 
batis, or 600 acres, and priced at 449 madhas. The boundary villages 
still exist, and with their help, the position of the villages may be 
approximately put at 85° 56' 45" long, by 20° 10' 27" lat., on the left 
side of the river Bhargavi and close to the P, W. D. Bungalow at 
Khirkhia. The villages were in Koshtadesa (Dandapat), Odamolo 
(Subdivision), Madanakhanda Yisaya (now bisi). 
The inscriptions were inscribed by Durgadasa and Gurudasa Sena- 
pati respectively. They close with the usual extracts from the Smrtis 
as to the benefits of gifts, and the sins of resumption. 
Before concluding, I would draw attention to two passages. The 
first passage is the one beginning with padau yasya dhardntariksa... 
.to ...prdpya pramodanvita. (A. II. 38-43, B, II. 28-33). 
Translation :—“ What king can be named that could erect such a 
temple to god Purusottama— a temple, whose base is the whole earth, 
whose navel the entire sky, whose ears the cardinal points, whose eyes 
the sun and the moon, and whose head the heaven. Left undone by the 
first kings, Gagge^vara built it. This ocean is the birth-place of 
Laksmi, not so thinking in his father-in-law’s house (the ocean) Visnu 
lodged; but because he got there full adoration. The god Purusottama, 
still feeling apprehensive, was glad to get this new home; and Laksmi, 
too, gladly preferred living in her husband’s new house to living in her 
father’s home. 
The temple raised by Gagge^vara must have been a celebrated 
temple to deserve such specific notice in the inscription. Of Purusot¬ 
tama, what temple can it be but the temple of Jagannath ? The in¬ 
scription then differs from the Madala Paiiji which ascribes the erection 
of the temple to Auag^a-blrima-dgva, and which gives several specific 
details. Is this difference due to the fact that the main temple was built 
by Codagagga, but that the side temples, the walls, &c., and the thorough 
systematisation of the ceremonies and sebas were made in the time of 
Anagga-bhima-deva, and that in course of time, the former circumstance 
was lost sight of and the temple passed as Anagga-bhlma’s ? 
