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M. Chakravarti —Eastern Garjga kings of Orissa. 
Puri and Kendupatna copperplates name only tliree ancestors of 
Coragaqga; but the three Vizagapatam plates trace out his genealogy to 
the reputed founder of the family, including the above three. Conse¬ 
quently the account of the Gapga family will be incomplete if these 
ancestors are omitted. A full genealogical table from the reputed 
founder Virasimha to the last known Gaijga king Nrsimha Deva IV is 
annexed at the end of this article. The list of COragapga’s ancestors 
has been compiled from the Vizagapatam plates, and the Nadagam 
plates of Vajrahasta edited with two tables by Mr. Gr. V. Ramamurti 
in Ep. Ind., Vol. IV, p. 183 ff. 
The calculation of dates from Vajrahasta seem to corroborate the 
conclusion that paka 998 was the first year of CSragapga. Vajrahasta 
was crowned in paka 960 [v. 8, 11. 34-7, Nadagam plates, pp. 190-1]. 
He is given 33 years in the Vizagapatam plate dated Qaka 1003, and 30 
years in the V. plate dated paka 1040. The first figure may be the 
regnal year, and the second one actual years of rule minus months. 
Rajaraja is given eight years in all the V. plates, and this figure I take to 
be the actual year. If in the regnal years, the number one used to be 
omitted, as appears from the subsequent aqka years and from the regnal 
years of Kamarnava VII, then— 
paka ... ... 960 = 2nd regnal year. 
Add ... ... 31 (30 years and odd months). 
paka 
Add 
991 = the 33rd year of Vajrahasta, 
or the 1st year of Rajaraja. 
7 
... 998 = the 8th year of Rajaraja. 
Coragaijga could not have then succeeded to the throne before 
Paka 998. 
Several queens of Coragaqga are named in the inscriptions,— 
Kasturikamodinl, Indira and Candralekha (Puri and Kendupatna 
Plates); Somala Mahadevi (No. 146), Laksmi Devi (Nos. 210, 392, and 
393), and Prithvi Mahadevi (No. 211), (in the stone inscriptions) ; 
Nos. 203 and 215 of Mukhalipgam record grants of certain unnamed 
queens of his. 
He had several sous. The copperplates mention Kamarnava, 
Raghava, Rajaraja and Aniyaijkabhima; in No. 239, one Umavallabha 
is said to have been his son. 
He had apparently a brother (or brothers), for No. 153 records a 
grant of his younger brother’s wife. 
