Palitana-Iyaveja plates of Dhruvasena I, year 210, Bhadrapada ba. 9

Editor: Annette Schmiedchen.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSMaitraka00016.

Summary: Grant of land in favour of two Yajurvedic brothers (no. 1: 100 pādāvarta; no. 2: 100 pādāvarta and a cistern surrounded by 12 pādāvarta) from Nagaraka.

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Language: Sanskrit.

Repository: Maitraka (tfb-maitraka-epigraphy).

Version: (f455aac), last modified (552eb3d).

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Translation by Annette Schmiedchen

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[S2014] Schmiedchen, Annette. 2014. Herrschergenealogie und religiöses Patronat: die Inschriftenkultur der Rāṣṭrakūṭas, Śilāhāras und Yādavas (8. bis 13. Jahrhundert). Gonda Indological Studies 17. Leiden: Brill.