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M. Chakravarti —Eastern Garjga kings of Orissa. 
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Materials.— Continued. 
No. 
Lan¬ 
guage. 
Date-extracts. 
Deferences. 
Eemarks. 
Circa £aka 1278 or A.D, 1356-7 
. * 
Sewell, Yijaya-naga- 
ra, p. 300; Sewell, 
Sketch, p, 105. 
Defeat of the 
Gajapatiby 
Sagg am a, 
nephew of 
Bnkka I. 
762 A. H. or A.D. 1360-1 ... 
Tarikh-i-Firuz-Shahi 
Invasion o f 
of Sharas-i-Siraj 
’Afif, Elliot’s Mah. 
Jaj-n agar 
by Snltan 
Hist. Ind., Vol. Ill, 
Firuz §hah 
312-5; note 4, 
p. 587, in Tabakati- 
Nas. (transl., below 
pp. 591-2). 
of Delhi. 
First year. The above give us— 
paka 1276 ^current), or 1274-5 = 3rd (? 2nd) aijka or 1st year. 
,, 1275 (expired), or 1275-6 = 3rd ,, 2nd ,, 
*. ,, 1274-5 ... = 1st year. 
From the initial year of the succeeding king, we get Qaka 1300-1 
Last year. as ttie last ? ear of this king. The inter¬ 
vening period comes to 27th year against 
26 allotted in the copperplates. As noticed under ‘Nrsimha Deva III, 
the total of years in the copperplates for these three kings, viz., 74, is 
just equal to the number of years intervening between 1227-8 and 
1300-1. 
He was son of Nrsimha Deva III by Kamala Devi. He has 
Relationship and Ti- been variously styled as pri-Tira or Trea¬ 
ties. pri-Bhanu Deva, and Pratapa-Tira-Bhann 
Deva. 
No. 324, of prikurmam records that the king gave images of Yira- 
Narasimha-Deva and of Gaqgambika hold¬ 
ing lamps, on the 1st day of Pau^a cukla 
pak sa¬ 
in A.D. 1353, Haji Ilyas, the Bengal ruler, apparently hearing of 
the death of the king, raided into Jaj-nagar for capturing elephants. 
Later on, Saggama, the nephew of Bukka I, of Vijayanagara, is credited 
with having defeated the Gaja-pati, i.e., the Orissa king. Apparently 
Historical Facts. 
