# Stray plate of Uddyotakeśarin from Mahada

Amandine Wattelier-Bricout

Author of digital edition: Amandine Wattelier-Bricout

Contributor: Amandine Wattelier-Bricout

Identifier: DHARMA_INSSomavamsin00033

Repository: Somavaṁśin (tfb-somavamsin-epigraphy)

File path: texts/DHARMA_INSSomavamsin00033.xml

Language: Sanskrit [Script (unspecified)]

Commit: 2026-10-07 18:12 (dbc7acc), last modified 2026-09-09 14:25
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## Edition

⟨Page 1r⟩

⟨1⟩ śrī-caṇḍ¿i?⟨ī⟩hara-devasya suta⟨ḥ⟩ śrī-Uddyotakesari⟨2⟩-devaḥ kuśalī
yamalāṇkhaṇḍa-prativaddha-gomuṇḍa⟨3⟩llāgrām¿e?⟨aḥ⟩
sām{v}ra-madhutālasa-sagartoṣara⟨ḥ⟩
sajalastha⟨4⟩la⟨ḥ⟩sakh¿a?⟨e⟩ṭaviṭapa⟨ḥ⟩sapadrāraṇya⟨ḥ⟩
sama¿cchā?⟨tsya⟩kacchapa⟨ḥ⟩ catu⟨ḥ⟩⟨5⟩-s¿i?⟨ī⟩mā-bhūmicchidrāny api
¿nā?⟨Ā⟩candratārakārka-kṣiti-sama⟨6⟩-kālopabhogārtha⟨ṁ⟩ mātrāpi pitror
ātmanaś ca pu¿n?⟨ṇ⟩ya-yaśo ’bhivr̥⟨7⟩ddhaye somagrahe⟨ṇa⟩ madhyade ⟨Page
1v⟩ ⟨8⟩ śevi⟨nirga⟩tāya jāt¿o?⟨u⟩ ka⟨r⟩¿ṇa?⟨ṇya⟩⟨sa⟩-gotrāya
vasiṣṭha-prava⟨9⟩rāya parepravarāya yaj¿a?⟨u⟩rveda-śākhādhyāyine
pa⟨10⟩ṇḍita-bhaṭṭa-putra-dharmmapālā⟨ya⟩ śrīsarv⟨y⟩a¿ś?⟨s⟩c¿ī?⟨i⟩sutāya
⟨11⟩ gomuṇḍallāgrām¿o?⟨as⟩ tām{v}raśāsanīkr̥tya pratipā⟨12⟩ditam ity
avagatya ca samucita-bhoga-kara⟨13⟩nikara-hiraṇyādi
s{v}anidhi⟨ḥ⟩tyāsmi⟨sa⟩da⟨14⟩śāparādha⟨ḥ⟩ sarvavā¿dhāvahi?⟨dhārvajitaḥ⟩
sarvoparikara-karā

## Apparatus

⟨7⟩ somagrahe⟨ṇa⟩ madhyade ⬦ somagrahe¿na?⟨ṇa⟩ ⟨ma⟩dhyade S.

## Bibliography

This plate is preserved in the Odisha State Museum. Photos available
here.

### Primary

[S] Shastri, Ajay Mitra. 1995. Inscriptions of the Śarabhapurīyas,
Pāṇḍuvaṁśins and Somavaṁśins, Part II: Inscriptions. New Delhi: Indian
Council of Historical Research; Motilal Bandarsidass. Appendix II, pages
332–334.

### Secondary

Tripathy, Snigdha. 2010. Descriptive topographical catalogue of Orissan
inscriptions. New Delhi: Manohar. Pages 465–466.

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 38, page 275.