Ghatama

Author: Laxman Burdak IFS (R)

Map of Korba district

Ghatama (घाटम) was a Chauhan vansha feudatory King of the Kalachuri prince Vahara, who possessed Kosagaigarh, mentioned in (L.10) of Kosgain Stone Inscription (No.II) Of Vahara - (Vikrama) Year 1570 (=1513 AD). Kosgai or Kosagaigarh is a village Korba district, Chhattisgarh, situated 25 kms off Korba-Katghora Road on the hillocks of Putka Pahad.

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Ghat (Jat clan) = Ghatama (घाटम). Ghatama (घाटम) was a feudatory of the Kalachuri prince Vahara mentioned in (L.10) of Kosgain Stone Inscription (No.II) Of Vahara: (Vikrama) Year 1570 (=1513 AD). The stone was originally found in the fort of Kosgain, 4 miles north-east of Chhuri in the Bilaspur District of Chhattisgarh. With verse 9 begins the genealogy of Ghatama (घाटम). In the Châyuhâna (Chauhan) (L.7) family there was a prince named Nirdevala (निर्देवल) (L.7). His son was Bharata (L.8). After him is mentioned Ghâtama who, though it is not expressly stated, was probably his son and successor. Ghâtama (घाटम) (L.9) obtained possession of a heaven-like fortress (evidently Kosanga (कोसंग) , modern Kosgain) and was greatly favoured by the king Vahara. His minister was Goraksha (गोरक्ष) (L.10), who had apparently a son named Vaijala (वैजल) (L.11). Verse 18 states that Ghâtama gave cows, yielding good milk and decked with gold and cloth, together with their calves to the poet Chandrâkara who composed this prasasti by his order. (p.564) ^[1]