# SII 12.6: original edition by V. Venkatasubba Ayyar

Emmanuel Francis

Alternative title: Section I. No. 6. (C.P. No. 3 of 1913-14). CHURĀ
GRANT OF VIJAYA-VISHṆUGŌPAVARMAN

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis

Identifier: DHARMA_INSSIIv12p0i0006

Repository: SII original (south-indian-inscriptions)

File path: SII_B_clean/SII12/DHARMA_INSSIIv12p0i0006.xml

Language: Undetermined [Script (unspecified)]

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## Summary

This copper-plate grant belongs to the reign of Dharmma-Mahārāja
Vijaya-Vishṇugōpavarman (II), son of Siṁhavarman, grandson of Mahārāja
Vishṇugōpavarman and great-grandson of Kandavarman(i.e., Skandavarman)
and it registers the grant of the village Churā in Karmmā-rāshṭra to a
Brahman named Chēsamiśarman of the Kāśyapa-gōtra and a resident of
Kuṇḍūr.[1] The donee was the son of Dvēdaya-Vṛiddhaśarman and the
grandson of Vishṇuśarman. The record bears no regnal year and was issued
on the day of Uttarāyaṇa from the royal camp at Vijaya-Palātkaṭa (i.e.,
Palakkaḍa).

As the Sanskrit language used in the record is faulty and as the
characters in which it is engraved are slightly later than those of the
Māṅgaḷūr and Pīkira grants of Siṁhavarman, it is possible that this is a
later copy of an earlier document.

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## Commentary

Published in Epigraphia Indica, Vol. XXIV, pp. 141 ff.

## Bibliography

Digital edition of SII 12.6 by Venkatasubba Ayyar & Krishnamacharlu 1943
converted to DHARMA conventions by Emmanuel Francis.

### Primary

[SII] Venkatasubba Ayyar, V. & C. R. Krishnamacharlu. 1943. South Indian
inscriptions. Volume XII: The Pallavas (with introductory notes in
English). South Indian Inscriptions 12. Madras: Government Press. Page
2, item 6.

[1] To the same village also belonged the donee of the Ōṁgōḍu grant (No.
3 above) and of the Puliṁbūru grant of the Vishṇukuṇḍin Mādhavavarman.