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Alamanda

Village in the old Sringavarapukota taluk of the Vizagapatam district, now in the Vizianagaram district. Copper plates of the Ganga king Anantavarman, son of Rajendravarman, were found underground here in the early 1890s. They are dated in the 304th year of the Gangeya race.

E. Hultzsch reported on three copper plates in Epigraphia Indica III (1894–95).1 They had been “found underground while excavating a site near Alamanda in the Sringavarapukota taluka of the Vizagapatam district”.1 The Collector sent them to him.1

The plates record a grant made at Kalinganagara by the Ganga king Anantavarman, son of Rajendravarman.12 It is dated in “the three-hundred-and-fourth year of the reign of the G[a]ngeya race”.12 The Vizagapatam district gazetteer of 1907 names Alamanda and Visakhapatnam (then Vizagapatam) as the two places in the district where inscriptions of the early Ganga kings had been found.3 See the Alamanda plates and the Eastern Gangas.

Footnotes

  1. E. Hultzsch, “Alamanda Plates of Anantavarman”, Epigraphia Indica III (1894–95), p. 17 (archive.org (opens in a new tab)). ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  2. Hultzsch, “Alamanda Plates of Anantavarman” (1895), p. 18 (archive.org (opens in a new tab)). ↩ ↩2

  3. W. Francis, Madras District Gazetteers: Vizagapatam, Vol. I (1907), p. 26 (archive.org (opens in a new tab)). ↩

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Inscriptions

Alamanda plates of Anantavarman

c. 802 CE

A copper-plate grant of the Ganga king Anantavarman, son of Rajendravarman, found near Alamanda in the Vizagapatam district (now Vizianagaram). It was issued from Kalinganagara on a solar eclipse at the consecration of a tank, and it gives the village of Medelaka to a Brahmin. It is dated in the 304th year of the reign of the Gangeya race, one of the clearest references to a Ganga era.

References

Sources (2)
  1. E. Hultzsch (ed.), Epigraphia Indica, Vol. III (1894–95) (opens in a new tab), Archaeological Survey of India, 1895, pp. 17–18. E. Hultzsch, Alamanda plates of Anantavarman (No. 3). [Public domain]
  2. W. Francis, Madras District Gazetteers: Vizagapatam, Vol. I (opens in a new tab), Government Press, Madras, 1907, pp. 26. [Public domain]

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