The Pitrbhakta (IAST: Pitṛbhakta) dynasty ruled in the Kalinga region of eastern India in the fifth century CE.
Their territory included parts of the present-day northern Andhra Pradesh and the southern Odisha.
The inscriptions of its kings describe them as pitṛabhaktaḥ (devotee of their fathers), which modern scholars have taken to be a dynastic appellation.
[3] The find spots of Umavarman's inscriptions, and the localities mentioned in them, are all situated in present-day Ganjam (southern part), Srikakulam, and Visakhapatnam districts.
[7] A king named Vishakhavarman, known only from one inscription, ruled the Paralakhemundi area (in present-day Gajapati district) in the late 5th century.
The inscription was issued from Shripura, which has been variously identified as Siripuram in the Vishakhapatnam district and the Batia Sripura village.
The Batia Sripura identification suggests that his rule was limited to the southern part of the present-day Ganjam district.
[7] The Koroshanda inscription records the grant of a village named Tampoyaka in the Korasodaka panchali (administrative division).
[7] The following copper-plate inscriptions of the Pitrbhakta kings are known:[10] All the records are in Sanskrit language, written in a southern variety of the Brahmi script.