1903.] 
117 
M. Chakravarti —Eastern Gctrjga kings of Orissa. 
First year. faka 1128 = 11th a^ka or 9th year; 
.\ „ 1120 = 2nd agka or 1st year. 
No inscriptions with regnal years have yet been found of the next 
_ , three kings, till one comes to Nrsimha Deva 
Last year. f 
II. balling back upon the years given m 
the Puri and Kgndupatna copperplates, I find that if treated as agkas, 
they just fit in, thus :—- 
Name of the king. 
First year. 
Last year. 
Period of 
reign 
(£Jaka). 
(Qaka). 
Rajaraja III 
1120 
1133 
17 th 
aijka or 
14th 
Atiaijga Bhima III 
1133 
1160 
34th 
55 
28th 
Nrsimha Deva I 
1160 
1186 
33rd 
35 
27 th 
Bhanu Deva I 
1186 
1200/1 
18 th 
33 
15th 
33 
33 
3 5 
Relationship. 
First Mahomedan in¬ 
vasion. 
Nrsimha Deva II 1200/1 as deduced from his inscriptions. 
These do not disagree with the inscripfcional or other dates attri¬ 
butable to the times of the respective kings. 
Rajaraja III was son of Aniyaqka Bhima Deva by his chief 
queen Baghalla Devi. He is spoken of as 
“ Rajendra” in Cate^vara inscription, 1.9, 
p. 321. 
The first Mahomedan inroad into Orissa 
took place in his reign. 
“ Trustworthy persons have related after this manner, that 
Muhammad-i-Sheran and Ahmad-i-Sheran were two brothers, two among 
the Khalj Amirs in the service of Muhammad-i-Bakht-yar ; and when 
the latter led his troops towards the mountains of Kamrud and Tibbat, 
he had despatched Muhammad-i-Sheran and his brother, with a portion 
of his forces, towards Lakh an-or and Jaj-nagar. When the news of 
these events ” [the retreat and death of Muhammad-i-Bakht-yar] 
“reached Muhammad-i-Sheran. he came back from that quarter and 
returned again to Diw-kot” (pp. 573-4). 
Orissa was known to Mahomedan historians under the name Jaj- 
nagar. The inroad of Muhammad-i-Sheran took place shortly before 
the assasination of Muhammad-i-Bakht-yar, in 602 A.H. (p. 513), and 
just about the time of his departure for Kamrud, which according to 
Major Raverty, happened towards the close of 601 A.H. (note 4 to 
p. 560). Hence the approximate time of this inroad, the first Maho¬ 
medan invasion of Orissa, would be the close of 601 A.H. or about June 
or July of A.D. 1205. 
