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A charter in Sanskrit on 5 plates, issued by the Eastern Chalukya king Vijayaditya III (Gunaka) (r. CE 849-892), son of Vishnuvardhana V, granting a village in Gudravara district to the Brahmin Vinayadi Sarman. Probably about the middle of the 9th century CE.

Scope and Contents Charter in Sanskrit on 5 plates, issued by Sriranga Deva Raya [Sriranga I] of Vijayanagara in the year of the Saka era 1502 (CE 1580/1). The inscription is clearly engraved on one side of each of the plates, which are moulded in the characteristic stele shape of the period (with a rounded central extension at the top). The inscription appears to include a signature in a different script (?Telugu) at the end. The seal on the ring depicts the royal insignia of a boar (a physical manifestation,...

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Charter in Sanskrit, on 3 copper plates, with seal on ring, issued by the Western Calukya Emperor Vijayaditya Satyasraya, son of Vinayaditya, conveying (after a historical introduction) the village of Sinhalavapura (?) to some Brahmins in Saka 622 (CE 700). A late and very inaccurate copy of a genuine document now lost.

Scope and Contents 5. Charter in Sanskrit on 3 plates, issued from the city of Nandipuri [south Gujarat] by the Gurjara king Dadda II Prasantaraga (r. CE 629-641), son of Vitaraga Jayabhata I, conveying estates to certain Brahmins, in the year 385 of the Kalachuri-Chedi era (probably CE 638), on the full-moon day of Karttika. Plate 1 is the same as the first plate of the Kaira grant published by J.F. Fleet in the Indian Antiquary, vol. XIII, p.81ff; plates 2-3 carry on from that point but are different in size...

Scope and Contents This is an important collection of 7 Indian inscriptions in Sanskrit on copper plates recording land grants dating from the 5th to 16th centuries CE. The study of such inscriptions is an important element within Indian epigraphy, especially for the early ones which have survived whereas other perishable writing materials of the period have not. The inscriptions normally record donations by kings of villages or land to the Hindu Brahman elite (who are considered to be particularly deserving...

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Mangalur charter, in Sanskrit (southern Brahmi script), on 7 copper plates, with (eroded) seal on ring. Issued from Dasanapura in the 8th year of the reign of the Pallava Maharaja Simhavarman II (c. CE 444), son of the Yuvaraja Visnugopa, grandson of Skandavarman II, and great-grandson of Viravarman, conveying a village to Brahmins.

Scope and Contents Nandināgarī Charter in Sanskrit, on 3 copper plates, with seal on ring. Issued by the (usurping) Emperor of Vijayanagara Immadi Nrsimha (Narasimha Raya II) in Saka year (elapsed?) 1426 (chronogram “rtu-netrabdhi-sitamsu”) corresponding to cyclic year Raktaksi (CE 1504?), full moon of Nabhasya, and conveying estates to Brahmins. (Similar to the Devulapalli charter of the same king published in Epigraphia Indica, VII, p.74ff).Seal cut. Seal legend: tribhuvanāṃkuśa. Script (late...