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Copperplates

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:

Charter issued by Sriranga Deva Raya [Sriranga I] of Vijayanagara, 1580/1 CE

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Identifier: Coll-1860/CP 7
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,...
Dates: 1580/1 CE
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Sir Walter Elliot Archive / Indian copper plate charters

Charter issued by the Western Calukya Emperor Vijayaditya Satyasraya, 700 CE

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Identifier: Coll-1860/CP 3
Scope and Contents

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. Ring is not cut.


TEXT:
(1v1) @ svasti jayaty āvijñāta viṣṇor vvarāha …
Cf. beginning of SOCI 28, 45 (IA 7, pp.217ff.), EI 33.58.

Dates: 700 CE
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Sir Walter Elliot Archive / Indian copper plate charters

Charter issued from the city of Nandipuri by the Gurjara king Dadda II Prasantaraga, c 638 CE

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Identifier: Coll-1860/CP 5
Scope and Contents 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...
Dates: c 638 CE
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Sir Walter Elliot Archive / Indian copper plate charters

Indian copper plate charters, 5th-16th centuries CE

 Sub-Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1860/CP
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...
Dates: 5th-16th centuries CE
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Sir Walter Elliot Archive

Mangalur charter, c 444 CE

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Identifier: Coll-1860/CP 1
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: c 444 CE
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Sir Walter Elliot Archive / Indian copper plate charters

Nandināgarī Charter, ?1504 CE

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Identifier: Coll-1860/CP 4
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...
Dates: ?1504 CE
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Sir Walter Elliot Archive / Indian copper plate charters

Uruvupalli charter, c 447 CE

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Identifier: Coll-1860/CP 2
Scope and Contents

Uruvupalli charter, in Sanskrit (southern Brahmi script), on 5 copper plates, with seal on ring, issued from Palakkada in the 11th year of the Pallava Maharaja Simhavarman II (c. CE 447) by the crown prince Viṣṇugopavarman (II), son of Skandavarman II, grandson of Viravarman, etc., conveying a village as a religious foundation.

Dates: c 447 CE
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Sir Walter Elliot Archive / Indian copper plate charters
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Volume entitled Indian Inscriptions, 19th century

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Identifier: Coll-1860/1/3
Scope and Contents

One volume containing copies of inscriptions on copper plates. The title page reads: 'Inscriptions of Ancient Copperplate Inscriptions prepared in India by Sir Walter Elliot, given by him to J. Burgess, and presented by him in 1906 to University Library, Edinburgh'.

Dates: 19th century
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Sir Walter Elliot Archive / Volumes of rubbings

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