Alavakoṇḍa copper plates, time of Viṣṇugopa, year 1

Metadata

Current Version:  draft, 2024-04-22Z

Editor:   Emmanuel Francis.

DHARMA Identifier: INSPallava00005

Summary: Grant (brahmadeya), with all exemptions, of the village of ... to a Brahmin.

Hand Description:

...

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Classification: religious land grant

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    Edition

    Seal

    1...

    Plates

    1 ⎘ plate 1v #11v1=1siddham |


    1v1=1vijayatthāṇā mahārājassa Appadi(ha)ta-sāsaṇassa s(ā)ma-
    1v2=2...
    1v3=3...
    1v4=4...
    ⎘ plate 2r 2r1=5...
    2r2=6...
    2r3=7...
    2r4=8... (2)
    ⎘ plate 2v #22v1=9...
    2v2=10...
    2v3=11...
    2v4=12...
    ⎘ plate 3r 3r1=4=13...
    3r2=14...
    3r3=15... (3)
    ⎘ plate 3v #33v1=16...
    3v2=17...
    2v3=18...
    ⎘ plate 2r 4r1=19...
    4r2=20ñcamī 5 _

    I. Anuṣṭubh
    bahubhir vvasudhā dattā _
    bah(u)bhiś cānupālitā
    yasya yasya ya4r3=21dā bhūmis
    tasya tasya tadā phalaM

    II. Anuṣṭubh
    svadattāṁ paradattāṁ vā
    yo hareta vasu4r4=22ndharāM
    gavāṁ śata-sahasrasya
    hantuḥ ⟨⟨p(i)⟩⟩bati duṣkṛtaM

    Iti

    svasti

    Apparatus

    Seal

    1 ... ◇ RKR

    Plates

    0 ... ◇ ... RKR

    Translation by Emmanuel Francis

    ...

    I.
    ...
    ...
    ...
    ...

    II.
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    ...
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    22Thus [it is said].

    23Fortune!

    Translation into French by Emmanuel Francis

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    Bibliography

    Edited in Reddy and Krishna Reddy 2000 with facsimile; re-edited here for DHARMA (ERC n° 809994) by Emmanuel Francis (2023) , based on published estampages.

    Primary

    Reddy, A. K. V. S. & N. Krishna Reddy. 2000. “A Newly Discovered Prākrit Copper Plate Grant of Pallava Viṣṇugōpavarman, Year 1.” Śāṅkaram: Recent researches on Indian culture (Professor Srinivasa Sankaranarayanan Festschrift), edited by S. S. Ramachandra Murthy, B. Rajendra Prasad, and D. Kiran Kranth Choudary, 67–70. New Delhi: Harman Pub. House.
    [siglum RKR]

    Secondary

    Francis, Emmanuel. 2013. Le discours royal dans l’Inde du Sud ancienne : inscriptions et monuments Pallava, IVème-IXème siècles. Tome I : Introduction et sources. Publications de l’Institut orientaliste de Louvain 64. Louvain-la-Neuve; Paris: Université catholique de Louvain, Institut orientaliste; Peeters.
    № IR 5. [siglum EF]