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M. Ohakravarti —Eastern Gayga kings of Orissa. 
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Chronology of the Eastern Gayga kings of Orissa.—By Babu Monmohan 
Chakrayarti, M.A., B.L., M.R.A.S., Deputy Magistrate , Bengal. 
[Read August, 1903,] 
These kings belong to an important dynasty which ruled Orissa 
Introductory ^ or more than three centuries. Very little 
authentic was known about them until my 
article on “ The two Copperplate Inscriptions of the king Nrsimha 
Deva IV ” was read in the meeting of this Society (February, 1891). 
Since then much additional materials have been published; and their 
history now rests on surer grounds than the unreliable traditions em¬ 
bodied in the Madala Pahji , or the chronicles of the Jagannatha temple. 
Nevertheless much confusion still exists specially about their times 
Confusion about aild y ears of reign. In the note 1, page 133, 
dates. of my aforesaid article, I pointed out that 
the total of regnal years added to the abhiseka year of Kamarnava 
Deva (the successor of Corngarjga) considerably exceeded the faka 
years of the inscriptions, when it should have agreed with them. Then 
again, while discussing the article of Babu Nagendra Nath Vasu on “The 
Copperplate Inscription of Nrsimha Deva II ” [see Proceedings of this 
Society, November, 1897], 1 once more drew attention to this confusion 
and hoped for some solution of it. As this confusion has been hamper¬ 
ing the discussion of all historical events of the Ga^ga-varh^a rule, I 
have gathered together in this article all the facts known to me bearing 
upon the subject, and have attempted to cut a way through the confused 
tangles of inscriptional and other records. 
The inscriptions which I edited in 1891 [published in the Journal 
As. Soc. Ben., Vol. LXIV (1895), pp. 128- 
154,] still give the most complete list of 
the Gagga-vam^a kings, and have, therefore,-been made the basis of this 
article. These copperplates will be briefly referred to as “ The Puri Cop¬ 
perplates.” The informations given by these copperplates have been 
checked and supplemented— 
(i) By three copperplate inscriptions of CSraga^ga Deva. They 
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The materials. 
