EIAD 172. Koṇḍamudi plates of Jayavarman, 3rd c. CE author of digital edition Emmanuel Francis Arlo Griffiths European Research Council (ERC), grant agreement no 809994 DHARMA Jakarta DHARMA_INSEIAD00172.xml CC BY-SA 4.0 2019-2026 DHARMAbase

Lettering that is eccentric in several ways but seem compatible with a dating the 3rd century CE. According to Hultzsch (3151901: 315), the script on the seal is in archaic characters which differ totally from those employed on the plates.

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 encoded the inscription
Seal br̥hatphalāyana-sagotrasya mahārāja-śrī-jayavarmmaṇaḥ
Plates

bamhanānaṁ sava-gutaja-mahājanānaṁ janānaṁ 8 kūdūrahāre pāṁṭūrasa bamhadeyasa

1 svpato vijaya-khaṁdhāvārā nagarā kūdūrāto maheśvara-pāda-parigahito 2 br̥hatphalāyana-sagoto rājā siri-jayavaṁmo Ānapayati kūdūre vāpataṁ

Aṁmhe dāni Aṁmha-vejayike . Āyu-vadhanike ca . 3 baṁmhanānaṁ gotama-sagota-jāyāparasa savagutajasa 8 tānavasa savigajasa . Asiyo 3 goginajasa Asiyo 3 koḍina-sagotasa bhavaṁnajasa Asiyo be 2 4 bhāradāyasa rudaveṁnhujasa . Aṁsi divaḍhā . kaṁnhāyanasa Īsaradatajasa Asi divaḍhā ― Opamaṁnavasa rudaghosajasa Aṁsi 1 kosika-sagotasa khaṁdarudajasa Aṁsikāddhā caṁ 5 janānaṁ 8 Aṁsiyo 20 4 kātuūna kūdūrahāre gāmaṁ pāṁṭuraṁ ― baṁmhadeyaṁ dadāma

Etaṁsi taṁ gāma . pāṁṭūra . baṁmhadeyaṁ kātūna Oyapāpehi

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Etasa casa gāmasa pāṁṭūrasa baṁmhadeyaṁ kātuūna parihāre vitarāma

Apāpesaṁ Anomasaṁ Alona-khādakaṁ . Araṭha-saṁvinayikaṁ . 7 sava-jāta-pārihārikaṁ ca

Etehi naṁ parihārehi pariharāhi

Etaṁ casiṁ gāmaṁ pāṁtūraṁ baṁmhadeyaṁ kātuūna Etha nibaṁdhāpehi

Aviyena Ānataṁ sayaṁ chato siri-Aṭha-satā8 -vijayo dato paṭikā .

saṁva 10 he pa 1 diva 1 mahā-talavarena . mahā-daṁḍanāyakena bhāpahānavaṁmena . kaṭati .

Seal
Plates svpato Hultzsch (3166): The two first letters are broken away at the top. The lower portion of the letter v is preserved on a separate piece of the plate, which is broken off and therefore could not be shown on the accompanying photo-zincograph. Of the two possible restorations, sava (sarva) and siva (śira), the second appears preferable, because documents generally open with a word of auspicious import. divaḍhā divaḍāḍhā mahā-talavarena mahātagi-varena Vogel (71) saw that mahā-talavarena is expected here, but imagined a scribal error. The shape of la is eccentric only at first sight, but regular for this hand. See, e.g., br̥hatphalāyana in line 7. See also .
Seal

(The seal) of the Mahārāja, the glorious Jayavarman, who belongs to the gotra of the Br̥hatphalāyanas.

Plates

(Order referring) to the brahmadeya Pāṇṭūra in Kūdūrāhāra, (granted) to 8 people, to Brāhmaṇas, to the mahājanas (headed by) Savagutaja.

(From the camp of victory, the town Kūdūra, — the fortunate king, the glorious Jayavarman, who is favoured by the feet of Maheśvara (and) who belongs to the gotra of the Br̥hatphalāyanas, orders (his) official (vyāpr̥ta) at Kūdūra (as follows:

“For conferring on ourselves victory (in war) and for increasing (our) length of life, we have now given the village Pāṇṭūra in the district of Kūdūra (Kūdūrāhāra) (as) a brahmadeya, assigning 24 shares to 8 people, (viz.) to (the following) Brāhmaṇas: to Savagutaja (Śarvaguptārya), a householder of the Gautama gotra, 8 (shares); to Sagivija of the Tānavya (gotra) 3 shares; to Goginaja 3 shares; to Bhavannaja of the Kauṇḍinya gotra two — 2 — shares; to Rudavennhuja (Rudraviṣṇvārya) of the Bhāradvāja (gotra) one and a half share; to Īsaradataja (Īśvaradattārya) of the Kārṣṇāyana (gotra) one and a half share; to Rudaghosaja {Rudraghoṣārya) of the Aupamanyava (gotra) 1 share; and to Khandarudaja (Skandarudrārya) of the Kauśika gotra half a share.

“Parcel off that village Pāṇṭūra from this (district), having made (it) a brahmadeya.

“And to this village Pāṇṭūra we grant (all) immunities, having made (it) a brahmadeya.

“(Let it be) free from being entered, free from being meddled with, free from diggings for salt, araṭhasaṁvinayika,On this term, see our note on EIAD 161, lines 18–19. and endowed with immunities of all kinds.

“Exempt (it) with (all) these immunities.

“And having made this village Pāṇṭūra a brahmadeya, cause a charter to be drawn ups to this effect.”

The order was issued by word of mouth. (The charter) was signed by (the king) himself. Fortune, wealth, power and victory were given (by the donees to the king as a reward for the grant).

(This) set of plates was prepared on the 1st day of the 1st fortnight of winter of the 10th year by the Mahādaṇḍanāyaka Bhāpahānavarman, the best of the Mahātagi (family?).Adopting a different reading (mahā-talavarena), we would modify the translation for the last phrase as follows: by the great talavara, the great daṇḍanāyaka Bhāpahānavarman.

Edited by E. Hultzsch () directly from the plate. This digital edition based on photos of estampages published by Hultzsch.

315-319 281 151-162 317-325