Dasapalla Grant of Devānandadeva

Editor: Amandine Wattelier-Bricout.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSNandodbhava00002.

Hand description:

Language: Sanskrit.

Repository: Nandodbhava dynasty (tfb-nandodbhava-epigraphy).

Version: (1faeb09), last modified (1faeb09).

Edition

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Apparatus

Translation

Commentary

Bibliographical references : acharya 2014 n 5 p 403-404 Sircar EI29 1951-1952 p 183-189 ; ARIE 1952-1953 CP n17

39 lines ; 19 on the obverse and 20 on the reverses. 16 verses : ten in the introductory portion (the verses are not conventional but they describe almost the same genealogy of the Nanda ruling family) and six at the end in line 33-38 out of which five are customary verses.

The present record clearly states that the reigning king Devānanda II was the son of Vilāsatuṅga. Acharya 2014, n. 57, p. 403: "According to Sircar, "the correct genealogy of the Ndand or Nadodbhava rulers of Orissa from Jayānanda,the founder of Jayapura, to his fifth descendant Devānanda II is thus supplied by the record under review. But the relationship between Devānanda II and Dhruvānanda still remains incertain. Dhruvānanda seems to have been either a younger brother or a son of Devānanda II (p.184)"

Bibliography

Currently preserved in the Odisha State Museum, accession number 22.

Primary

Acharya 2022_01

Secondary

Acharya, Subrata Kumar. 2014. Copper-plate inscriptions of Odisha: a descriptive catalogue (circa fourth century to sixteenth century CE). New Delhi: D. K. Printworld. Item 5, pages 403–404.