Alavakoṇḍa plates, time of Viṣṇugopa, year 1

Authors of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis (emfr), Timothy Lubin (tilu), Andrew Ollett (anol).

Summary: Grant (brahmadeya), with all exemptions, of the village of ... to a Brahmin.

Palaeographic description: ...

Languages: Middle Indo-Aryan (pra) [Southern Brāhmī (other) (brāhmī_southern_other)], Sanskrit (san) [Southern Brāhmī (other) (brāhmī_southern_other)].

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00376.

File path: DHARMA_INSPallava00376.xml.

Version: 2026-08-14 13:33 (d9e9623), last modified 2026-07-17 15:32 (ecb0276).

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⟨1v1=1⟩ vijayatthāṇā mahārājassa Appadi(ha)ta-sāsaṇassa s(ā)ma-
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⟨4r2=20⟩ ñcamī 5 _ bahubhir vvasudhā dattā _ bah(u)bhiś cānupālitā yasya yasya ya-

⟨4r3=21⟩ dā bhūmis tasya tasya tadā phalaM svadattāṁ paradattāṁ vā yo hareta vasu-

⟨4r4=22⟩ ndharāM gavāṁ śata-sahasrasya hantuḥ ⟨⟨p(i)⟩⟩bati duṣkṛtaM Iti svasti

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⟨22⟩ Thus ⟨it is said⟩.

⟨23⟩ Fortune!

Bibliography

Edited in Reddy & Krishna Reddy 2000 with visual documentation.

This revised edition by Emmanuel Francis, based on published estampages.

Primary

[RKR] Reddy, A. K. V. S. & N. Krishna Reddy. 2000. “A newly discovered Prākrit copper plate grant of Pallava Viṣṇugōpavarman, year 1.” In: Śāṅkaram: Recent researches on Indian culture (Professor Srinivasa Sankaranarayanan Festschrift). Edited by S. S. Ramachandra Murthy, B. Rajendra Prasad & D. Kiran Kranth Choudary. New Delhi: Harman, pp. 67–70.

Secondary

[EF] Francis, Emmanuel. 2013. Le discours royal dans l’Inde du Sud ancienne : inscriptions et monuments Pallava, IVème-IXème siècles. Tome I : Introduction et sources. Publications de l’Institut orientaliste de Louvain 64. Louvain-la-Neuve; Paris: Université catholique de Louvain, Institut orientaliste; Peeters. Item IR 5.

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