1898.] N. Vasu— Cdtegvara Inscription of Annrjga-bJiinia II. 
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The Categvara Inscription of Anagga-bhinici II of Orissa .— 
By Nagendranatha Vasu, Editor , Vigvakosa. 
[Read August, 1898.] 
In my article on the copper-plate grant of Njsimha Deva II. of 
Orissa, read in May, 1896, in our Society’s meeting, I merely alluded 
to this Inscription, expressing, however, my desire to publish it in full 
in a later issue. Now, compliant to that promise, I bring in my present 
article. 
This Inscription, which was first noticed in the V^vakosa 1 in 1894, 
is incised on a stone-slab in the temple of Cateqvara (or fiva) at Kisna- 
pur village in the PadmapurPargana, District Cuttack, and situated nearly 
12 miles north-east from the town of Cuttack and 2 miles to the north 
of the road from Cuttack to Chandbali. On both sides of this large 
temple, there are other temples of smaller size dedicated to Krsna- 
Radhika and Parvati, but these latter from their very appearance and 
architecture are evidently of a later period than that of Cateqvara. 
From the resemblance of architecture the temple of Cateqvara may 
he classed as coeval with other temples, built in several places of Orissa 
during the 12th and 13th centuries of the Christian era. The whole 
temple is built uniformly of basalt stone locally called banl-mdld. The 
ornamental beauty and superior workmanship of the architect, are not 
a little exhibited in the temple, but much of its former beauty is, for 
want of repair, in gradual decay. The interior of this high temple is 
all dark, and now affords an unmolested habitation for innumerable bats, 
through the callous indifference of its votaries. In the sanctum of the 
temple, there is a deep excavation in which lies the Liqga immerged in 
perpetual waters, save at the time of festivals when the water being 
drawn out the Liijga makes its appearance. 
A few people now inhabit the village Kisnapur, and they too, for 
the most part of them, are Bhopas , i.e., votaries to the God Cateqvara. 
Formerly the temple of Cateqvara had been vested with a large 
1 See ViijvakSsa, Yol. VI, p. 229. 
