The donee was Bhatta Mahabahu, a son of Vishnu and grandson of Ummoka and sprang from a Brahmin family, belonging to the Kashyap caste and the Kanva Shakha of the Yajurveda and hailing from Madhya Desa.
The name of Krodanja is elsewhere found as Krodanchi and Kolanchi, which was centre of learned Brahmins in the Kannauj region of Uttar Pradesh and the Brahmins of this place, who settled in north Bengal appears to have given the name of their old habitation to their new habitat as in the cases of Sravasti and Tarkari.
The mention of Dharmapala as "flourishing in a city called Kamarupanagar" in Aniruddha's prashati has created controversy, for the capital of Brahma Pala line is named Hadappaka in some records and Durjaya in others.
It is also accepted that Ratna Pala transferred his capital to Durjaya and Gopala restored it to Hadappaka.
There is no satisfactory evidence to identify Dharma Pala's capital Kamarupanagar with Kamatapur, particularly as the two names have no resemblance.