124 M. Chakravarti —Eastern Garjga kings of Orissa. [No. 2, 
article shewn to have taken place in the time of Nj-simha Deva himself 
he will not, I trust, he identified with his son-in-law, the sitra (lit. 
Samanta-Raya). 
Nrsimha Deva I will be remembered, however, by posterity, as the 
king under whose orders the great temple of Kanarka was built. 
All the copperplates agree in ascribing to him the erection of the sun 
Temple at Konakona. 
In (Jrikurmam temple no inscription of the king himself has been 
found. No. 307 records a grant by one Sahasa-malla during this king’s 
reign. In No. 352 is recorded a grant by one Yijaj^aditya whose father 
Rajaraja was a minister ( marntri) of this king, Yira Nrsimha I; [see 
Dr. Hultzsch, Ep. Ind., Yol. Y., p. 33]. 
Dr. R. G. Bhandarkar has discovered an Alaijkara work, Ekavali, 
whose author Yidyadhara flourished in the court of a Narasimha 
Deva, king of Utkala and Kalngga, (Narasimha II., according to Dr. 
Bhandarkar), [Report on Sanskrit MSS., 1887-91,pp. LXY-LXIX]. This 
king I am inclined to identify with Nrsimha Deva I, from the mention 
in the poem of the poet Harihara and his patron king Arjuna of Malwa 
(whose latest known date is 9th September, A.D. 1215), and from 
Yidyadhara’s description of the Utkala king as having humbled the 
pride of Hammlra, this being a title of the early Sultans of Delhi. 
[See Thomas, Chron. Path, kings, pp. 15, 16, 20, 50, 70, 71, 75, 90, 91, 
103, 108, 119, 123, 127, 137; Ind, Ant., Yol. XX., p. 208 et seq .; 
J.A.S.B., Yol. XLIII, p. 108]. 
[Since writing this, the Ekavali has been printed in the Bombay 
Sanskrit Series under the editorship of Mr. K. P. Trivedi; and thanks 
to Dr. Bhandarkar I have just got a copy of it. In the introductory 
note (pp. xxxiii—xxxvii), Dr. Bhandarkar is still inclined to 
take the king to be Narasimha Deva II, chiefly from the fact that he 
is described in the Puri copperplates as “ kavi-priyah ” (A. IY. 42), 
and “ kavi-kumuda-candro ” (A. Y. 3). This identification, however, 
does not explain the specific mention of the fights with “ Hammira, ” 
“ Yavana” and “paka” kings in Bengal, ^cf. pp. 176, 177, 202, 203, 
257, 260, 326). Nrsimha Deva II has nowhere been credited with 
any invasion of Bengal or with any war against the Mahomedans. For 
a fuller discussion, see Appendix II.] 
Ekavali is fortunate enough to have got a commentary named 
Tarala from the great commentator Mallinatha. It has been several 
times quoted in the citra-mimamsa and kuvalaycmanda of Appaya 
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