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Jirjingi

Village near Tekkali in the Srikakulam district. Copper plates of the Ganga king Indravarman, lord of Trikalinga, dated in the year 39, were found here during the excavation of an old temple. The village is itself the Jijjika granted in the plates.

R. K. Ghoshal re-edited the plates of the Ganga king Indravarman in Epigraphia Indica XXV (1939–40).1 According to him, they were turned up with pieces of old pottery during the excavation of an old temple.1 The temple was in the village of Jirjingi near Tekkali, then in the Ganjam district.1

The plates grant a village called Jijjika.2 R. Subba Rao identified Jijjika with Jirjingi itself, and Ghoshal accepted this.2 See the Jirjingi plates and the Eastern Gangas.

Footnotes

  1. R. K. Ghoshal, “Jirjingi Plates of Ganga Indravarman: the Year 39”, Epigraphia Indica XXV (1939–40), p. 281 (archive.org (opens in a new tab)). Paraphrased. ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  2. Ghoshal, “Jirjingi Plates of Ganga Indravarman” (1940), p. 286 (archive.org (opens in a new tab)). Paraphrased. ↩ ↩2

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Inscriptions

Jirjingi plates of Indravarman

c. 537 CE

A copper-plate grant of the Ganga king Indravarman, lord of Trikalinga, issued from Dantapura and dated in the year 39. It was found in an old temple site at Jirjingi near Tekkali in the Srikakulam country. When R. K. Ghoshal re-edited it in 1940, it was the oldest known record of the Eastern Gangas. It gives the village of Jijjika, the modern Jirjingi, to a Brahmin. On V. V. Mirashi's epoch (starting date) of the Ganga era, the year 39 falls in about 537.

References

Sources (1)
  1. N. P. Chakravarti (ed.), Epigraphia Indica, Vol. XXV (1939–40) (opens in a new tab), Manager of Publications, Delhi, 1940, pp. 281, 286. R. K. Ghoshal, Jirjingi plates of Ganga Indravarman (No. 29). Indian government work 1936–65; paraphrased. [Public domain in India]

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