# Alavakoṇḍa plates, time of Viṣṇugopa, year 1

Emmanuel Francis, Timothy Lubin and Andrew Ollett

Authors of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis, Timothy Lubin, Andrew
Ollett

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00376

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy)

File path: DHARMA_INSPallava00376.xml

Languages: Middle Indo-Aryan [Southern Brāhmī (unspecified)], Sanskrit
[Southern Brāhmī (unspecified)]

Commit: 2026-11-11 17:29 (458e70c), last modified 2026-09-29 11:09
(6edbbfa)

## Summary

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

## Palaeographic description

...

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## Edition

### Seal

⟨1⟩ ...

### Plates

⟨Page 1r⟩

⟨Page 1v⟩⟨left: 1⟩ ⟨1v1=1⟩ siddham ∥

⟨1v1=1⟩ vijayatthāṇā mahārājassa Appadi(ha)ta-sāsaṇassa s(ā)ma⟨1v2=2⟩...
⟨1v3=3⟩ ... ⟨1v4=4⟩ ... ⟨Page 2r⟩ ⟨2r1=5⟩ ... ⟨2r2=6⟩ ... ⟨2r3=7⟩ ...
⟨2r4=8⟩ ... ⟨Page 2v⟩⟨left: (2)⟩ ⟨2v1=9⟩ ... ⟨2v2=10⟩ ... ⟨2v3=11⟩ ...
⟨2v4=12⟩ ... ⟨Page 3r⟩ ⟨3r1=4=13⟩ ... ⟨3r2=14⟩ ... ⟨3r3=15⟩ ... ⟨Page
3v⟩⟨left: (3)⟩ ⟨3v1=16⟩ ... ⟨3v2=17⟩ ... ⟨2v3=18⟩ ... ⟨Page 4r⟩ ⟨4r1=19⟩
... ⟨4r2=20⟩ ñcamī 5 _

1. Anuṣṭubh

bahubhir vvasudhā dattā _
bah(u)bhiś cānupālitā
yasya yasya ya⟨4r3=21⟩dā bhūmis
tasya tasya tadā phalaM

2. Anuṣṭubh

svadattāṁ paradattāṁ vā
yo hareta vasu⟨4r4=22⟩ndharāM
gavāṁ śata-sahasrasya
hantuḥ ⟨⟨p(i)⟩⟩bati duṣkr̥taM

Iti

svasti

⟨Page 4v⟩

## Apparatus

### Seal

⟨1⟩ ... ⬦ RKR.

### Plates

⟨0⟩ ... ⬦ ... RKR.

## Translation

...

1.

...
...
...
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2.

...
...
...
...

⟨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, IV^(ème)-IX^(ème) 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.