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R. Mitra —Donative Inscription of Vidyddhara Bhanja . [No. 3, 
ago, and therefore could not have had any part in making the grant. The 
village or town, in which the Raja was present when he made the gift, 
bore the name of Valjalvaka, and this too is not traceable. Babii 
Dharitrinath Deva, a relative of the Bhanja Raja of Mayurabhanja, in¬ 
forms me that he knows of no place of that name, and that Vimalabhanja 
was never a second name of Mayurabhanja. I have not yet succeeded 
in getting any information in regard to this place from Grumsur. 
The donee was one Bhatta Darukhandi of the Data sept (Pravar i) 
of the Upamanya gotra. He belonged to the Bahvricha S'aklia of the 
Rig Veda. His father’s name was S'urideva, who was the son of one 
Gaurichandra. 
The donor describes himself as a Maharaja, but the names of his 
father and grandfather occur without any regal prefix. The great¬ 
grandfather, however, is described as a Raja, and we may safely pre¬ 
sume that the epithet is expected to be assumed in the two intermediate 
cases. The names stand thus : 
Raja Vranabhanja Deva. 
Divabhanja Deva. 
Silibhanja Deva. 
Maharaja Vidyadliarabhanja Deva. 
The last claims to have been a devout worshipper of Mahadeva 
(paramamahesvara ), and this declaration is emphasized by the two in¬ 
troductory stanzas which praise the attributes of that dread divinity. 
Of his race the only information vouchsafed is that he was an “ orna¬ 
ment of the Bhanjana race” (Blianjana-hula-tilaha ). It is obvious 
from this that the words Blianja and Bhanjana are synonjmious and 
exchangeable, but it helps to take us no further. We possess no ac¬ 
count whatever of these Bhanjanas. Babii Dharitrinath Deva has not 
heard of the name of Vidyadhara in the Blianja genealogy, and knows 
nothing of him. He has not yet been able to obtain for me a copy of the 
family treo of his relative, and in matters of this kind memory is not at 
all reliable. Few persons in ordinary life can correctly recite the names 
of ton of his ancestors, and few would attempt to do so. In the absence 
of positive information T am disposed to think that I bavo in the record 
before mo the namos of four members who are now quite forgotten in the 
annals of the Mayurabhanja dynasty. 1 am disposed to think, too, that 
there exists no complete record of t he family from the date of its origin. 
Only a few of the Tributary Mahal chiefs can appoal to any record of an 
older date than two hundred years, though several of them have un¬ 
questionably exercised their ohiofships from generation to generation for 
a much longer period. 
The record has no date. This is an unusual peculiarity, the rule 
