Pīparḍūlā Plates of Narendra, Year 3 EpiDoc Encoding Natasja Bosma intellectual authorship of edition Natasja Bosma European Research Council (ERC), grant agreement no 809994 DHARMA Berlin DHARMA_INSDaksinaKosala00001.xml CC BY-SA 4.0 2019-2026 as per external metadata

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Seal khaḍgadhārājitabhuvaḥ śarabhāt prāptajanmanaḥ nr̥pateś śrīnarendrasya śāsanaṁ ripuśāsinaḥ
Plates

* svasti śarabhapurān mahārājaśrīnarendraḥ nandapurabhogīyaśarkarāpadrake brāhmaṇādīn prativāsikuṭumbino bodhayati

Eṣa grāmo rāhudevena svapuṇyābhivr̥ddhaye brāhmaṇavājasaneyaṁ Āātreyasagotrasvāmippāya tāmbramraśāsanenātisr̥ṣṭo mayāpi ca Acāṭabhaṭaprāveśya Ity anumodito yato bhavadbhir asya yathākālaṁ meyahiraṇyādīnāṁ pratyāyānām upanayanaḥ karttavyaḥ

bhaviṣyataś ca bhogapatīn abhinandayati pūrvvadatter anupālanāc chreyasā sambandhaḥ Ācchedāc ca pratyapāya Ity anuprapaśyadbhir bhavadbhir asya grāmasyānupālanaṁ karttavyaM vyāsagītāv atra ślokāv udāharanti.

pūrvvadattāṁ dvijātibhyo yatnād rakṣa yudhiṣṭhira mahīṁ mahīmatāṁ śreṣṭha dānāc chreyo 'nupālanaM ṣaṣṭiṁ varṣasahasrāṇi svargge vasati bhūmidaḥ Ācchettā cānumantā ca tāny eva narake vaseT

pravarddhamānatrir̥tīyavarṣasya mārggaśiramāsadivase daśame Utkīrṇṇāṁ śrīdatteneti.

Seal °bhuvaḥ °bhuvaḥ °bhuvaiḥ
Plates °vājasaneyaṁ Āātreya° °vājasaneya-Ātreya° °vājasaneya-Ātreya° tāmbramra° tāmra° tāmbramra° pūrvva° pūrvva° pūrva° °gītāv atra °gītau cātra °gītāv atra °trir̥tīya° °trir̥tīya° °tr̥itīya°
Seal

The charter belongs to the illustrious king Narendra who chastised his enemies, who was the son of Śarabha who conquered the earth with the blade of his sword.

Plates

Success! Hail! From Śarabhapura, the illustrious Mahārāja Narendra informs the landholders, beginning with the Brahmins, settled in the village of Sarkarāpadraka situated in the Nandapura bhoga:

This village has been granted by Rāhudeva for the increase of his own religious merit to the Brahmin Svāmippa, belonging to the Ātreya gotra and to the Vājasaneya school, by means of a copperplate charter; and the grant is thus also confirmed by me, making it not to be entered by irregular or regular troops. Therefore, you should render taxes consisting of the proper shares of produce, gold, et cetera at the proper time.

And he Narendra instructs the future rulers: The protection of the grant of this village should be taken care of by you, well-discerning that: Prosperity derives from protecting a grant made previously, and sin derives from confiscating such a grant. In this respect, they quote two stanzas sung by Vyāsa:

O Yudhiṣṭhira, zealously protect what was previously given to Brahmins! O best of kings, protection is superior to giving!

A giver of land dwells in heaven for sixty thousand years; he who confiscates it or allows another to confiscate it will dwell for the same period in hell!

The copperplate charter has been engraved by Srīdatta on the tenth day of the month of Mārgaśiras of the prosperous third year of Narendra’s reign.

First edited by Sircar and Pandeya from rubbings made of the original plates and seal; published again by Shastri 5-7; re-edited here by Natasja Bosma based on the published photographs (unclear passages based on Sircar and Pandeya).

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