Nadagam

G. V. Ramamurti reported in 1897 that the plates of the Ganga king Vajrahasta had been discovered about two years earlier.¹ They were found “at Nadagam, a village in the Narasannapeta taluka of the Ganjam district”.¹ A cultivator, Sanku Appanna, found them while he was working in his field.¹ The villagers believed that the plates had belonged to Jangams, a sect of Saivas who had lived in the locality until about fifty years before.¹

Ramamurti noted a village called Badam near the findspot, in the Narasannapeta taluk, and one called Boppadam in the Srikakulam (then Chicacole) taluk.² But he could not say whether they were the Vadam and Vappudam named in the grant.² See the Nadagam plates and Vajrahasta III.

Footnotes

1. G. V. Ramamurti, “Nadagam Plates of Vajrahasta; Saka-Samvat 979”, Epigraphia Indica IV (1896–97), p. 183 (archive.org↗ (opens in a new tab)). ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴

2. Ramamurti, “Nadagam Plates of Vajrahasta” (1897), p. 187 (archive.org↗ (opens in a new tab)). ↩ ↩²