Orissa under the Bhauma kings

To The Sacred Memory

MY MOTHER.

of

PREFACE.

About two decades back of the

Bhauma

suzerain power of Orissa.

number

years a large

the historians had no knowledge

of inscriptions of

During the recent

Bhauma

the

family

have been edited by different scholars ; moreover Professor Sylvan Levi has brought to light an interesting event of the

Bhauma

But the problems connected with

age.

the said

family have

remained

discussion on

the said problems has been initiated in this

monograph

;

and

so

far

undiscussed.

for easy comprehension

of the subject

the readers the texts and translations of

published

Bhauma

records have been given

Therefore

almost in

all

a

by the

the following

pages along with those of three unpublished plates. I regret to draw the attention of the readers to the fact

used in the that the Hindi numerical figures have been transliterations of texts to serve the purpose of signs of footnotes since no better alternative

could

be

provided

by

the press.

In conclusion I acknowledge my indebtedness to Pandit Nilakantha Das M. A., who corrected the translation of some Slokas.

My

Acharya B. this

thanks are also due to Sc.,

who

rendered

me

my

friend Mr.

Paramananda

occasional help to bring out

work.

NAYAGAEH.

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