35. Kanas (Olasingh) plate, year 5.
EI, Vol. 28, No. 51: 332-34 (D.C. Sircar); OHRJ 2, no. 1: 31-46 (Satyanarayan Rajaguru); IO, II, III, 133-135.

The village of Kanаs lies about ten miles away from the Delang station of the Bengal-Nagpur Railway in the Puri District of Orissa. The village is celebrated for an ancient Maтha or monastery under a Mahant Mahаrаj. Some time ago Pandit Sadащiva Ratha Щarmа of Puri, who is a Research Assistant of the Utkal Umversity, Cuttack, secured on loan two copper-plate inscriptions in the possession of the Kanаs Maтha and gave them for decipherment to Pandit Satyanаrаyana Rаjaguru who was formerly Research Assistant of the Kaliкga Historical Research Society, Balangir, and is now Assistant Curator of the Orissa Museum at Bhubaneswar. Pandit Rаjaguru made an attempt to decipher one of the two records and published the results of his study in the Journal of the Kalinga Historical Research Society, Vols. II, No. 4 and III, Nos. 1-3, January 1950, pp. 261-66. As the text of the inscription published by Pandit Rаjaguru appeared to me inaccurate and unsatisfactory, I was eager to examine the original plate. Both the plates in the possession of the Kanаs Maтha were secured on loan by the Government Epigraphist for India through the Collector of the Puri District in December 1950. The results of my study of the two inscriptions, one of which is as yet unknown to scholars, are published in the following pages.
B. Plate of Bhаnudatta (Olasingh plates by Rajaguru; Regnal Year 5
The inscription is engraved on both sides of a single plate measuring 5.8 inches by 4.1 inches. There is a protection, with a hole in it, in the middle of the left end of the plate, to which a seal must have been originally fixed. The seal is now lost. There are eleven lines of writing on the obverse and eight lines on the reverse. The preservation of the writing is very poor as both sides of the plate have suffered considerably from the effect of corrosion. The plate weighs 43 1/4 tolas. (DS)

TEXT (DS)

Obverse

1 [Siddham ||] Svasti [||*] Andhasubhikшataх paramad[ai]vata-щrи-parama[bhaттаraka-pаd-а]-
2 nudhyаtо mahа[pra]ti[hа]ra-ma[hа]rа[ja-ma]hаsаmanta-щrи-[Bhаnudattaх]
3 kuщalи U[tta]mа[l]оka-viшayе samupаgatаn=vartam[а]na-[bhaviшya]-
4 n-ma[hаsаma]nta-mahаrаja-[rа]japu[ttra-ku]mаrаmаty-оpa[rika]-
5 viшayapat[i]-tadаyuktaka-dа[ндa]v[а]s[i]ka-sthа[nаnta]rikаn=anyамщ=cha
6 chатa-bha[т-а]d[и]n=a[dhika]raн[амщ=cha] pуjayati | astu vaх [sa]mvi(saмvi)dita[м]
7 yath=а[smа]bhir=еtad-viшaya-samva(samba)ddha-chi[ra-khila]-щуnya-Ku-
8 m[vu]kиrikшilаka-grаmaх щr[и]-paramabhaтта[raka]-pаdа[nа]-
9 m=puнy-аbhivрddhayе tаmra-paттеn=а-chandr-а[rkka]-sama-kаla[м Chai]-
10 kаmvakа-Maнinаga-bhaттаrakаya Maittrаyaн[и]ya-chchhаttra-[maтha]-Vrа(Brа)-
11 [hma]наnаm=pratip[а*]ditas=tad=amишаm=uchitaм tаmra-pa[ттa-dаnaм

Reverse

12 datvа(ttvа) bhuгjаnаnаm=vа(m=bа)dhа na kеnachit=kаryа щrи-parama-bhaтта[ra*]ka-pа
13 dиya-dharma-gauravаch=cha dattir=еша paripаlayitavy=еti ||
14 Samva(Saмva)t 5 Ащva-di 20 4 [||*] Uktaг=cha dharmma-щаstrе [|*] Va(Ba)hu[bhi]r=vvasu[dhа]
15 dattа rаjabhiх Sagar-аdibhiх [|*] yasya yasya yadа bhуmis=[tasya] ta-
16 sya tadа [pha]laм(lam)|| Sva-dattаm=para-dattаm=va(ttам vа) yо harеta vasundharам(rаm |) [sa vi]-
17 ш[тh]аyам kрmir=bhуtvа pitрbhiх saha pachyatе |[|*] likhitaм sа[ndhi]-
18 vigrahika-Gоvindе[na] [|*] tаpitaм pедаpаla-Pratiштhitеna [|*]
19 utkиrннaм Щivanandanеn=еti || || 13 ||