108 M. Chakravarti —Eastern Gagga kings of Orissa. 
paka •• 
[No. 2- 
Last year. 
1061 = 64tb year 
... ... 1069 • = 72nd ,, 
According to this group, paka 998 = 1st year. 
Besides these, there are three inscriptions according to which the 
first year would fall in paka 999, and one inscription, probably a mis¬ 
take. according to which the first year would fall in paka 996. 
The difference of one year between the regnal years of Group I and 
Group IT, may be due to the fact that like agka years those in Group 
No. 1 omitted number one. This omission of number one is found also in 
the inscriptions of the next king Kamarnava. C5ragai)ga was crowned 
in paka 999; and he is more likely to have come to the throne in paka 
998, than Caka 997, as kings naturally would prefer £o be crowned on 
the earliest auspicious day possible. Inscription No. 271 of Dirghasi 
[Ep. Rep., p. 18 and Ep. Ind., IV, p. 316, v. 7] shows that in paka 997 
Rajaraja was living. Calculations from the preceding kings corroborate 
the conclusion of Group No. II. [see infra, p. 109]. For these reasons 
Caka 998 would preferably appear to be the first year of Coragaijga. 
The last year is given in No. 172 of Mukhaliqgam, 73rd year Caka 
1069. In paka 1070, Kamarnava’s year 3 
began. Consequently taking Qaka 998 as 
the first year, CSragajgga actually ruled till his 72nd year. In Puri and 
Kendupatna plates he is credited with a rule of seventy years. In these 
plates Kamarnava is said to have been crowned in paka 1064, month 
Pausa. This cannot literally be correct; as several inscriptions exist with 
Coragaijga’s regnal years from paka 1065 to 1069, while Kamarnava’s in¬ 
scriptions with regnal years begin with paka 1070 as his 3rd year. The 
coronation of Kamarnava in paka 1064 might possibly have been as a 
regent; for in that year Coragapga would have been very old, probably 
more than eighty, and might have arranged to transfer the active duties 
of a kingship to his the then eldest son Kamarnava. 
Coragaijga’s father was Rajaraja II of the Eastern Gaijga family ; 
and his mother was Rajasundari, the 
daughter of the Cola king, “ Coda-mahi * 
bhuj-atmajam ” (Yizagapatam plates). This Cola king was Vira Rajen- 
dra Deva I, surnamed Parak§9arivarman (A.D. 1052-1070); and thus 
Coragaijga became related to the great Cola king Kulottugga Cola I, 
as his sister’s son. The Coragaijga of the Gaijga family is apparently 
a different person from the Coragaqgaof the Teki plates, described as the 
son ( jpriy-atmjam ) of Kulottugga Cola I [verse 25, 1. 50, Ep. Ind., VI, 
p. 340], who bore the surname Rajaraja and was deputed by his father 
(in Qaka 1006) to rule the Veijgi territory. 
His family. 
