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1877.] R. Banerjea —Note on a Copper-plate from Cuttacic. 
ed on the east by Prayaga (Allahabad) and on the west by Yinasana (Kuruk- 
shetra). # 
The site o£ STi valla or Yalla must be searched for in the North-West 
for identification, while S'ilabhanjapati occurs somewhere in Khurda. 
Again, the Brahmans not only formed colonies round Jajpur, hut had vil¬ 
lages given them near Katak Chaudwar in Marada Hariharpur, in the 
subdivision of Khurda, during the reigns of the founder of the Kesari dynas¬ 
ty and his predecessors. There is every probability, however, of the Kesaris, 
who originated and sustained the revival of Brahmanism in Orissa, having 
invited Brahmans from the North-West, even as their successors the Ganga- 
vansis brought them from the South ; these two distinct streams of migra¬ 
tion of the Brahmans are now blended together, unlike the Kanyakubja 
and Vaidika Brahmans of Bengal, who never intermarry nor eat with each 
other. 
The record is full of orthographical mistakes, but I thought it 
tedious to note them in detail; the reader will find them by comparing my 
reading with corrections with the facsimile of the plate. A few of the cor¬ 
rections have been shown in parenthesis. 
Transcript. 
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