Talcher Plate of Gayāḍatuṅga #1

Editor: Amandine Wattelier-Bricout.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSTunga00004.

Hand description:

Language: Sanskrit.

Repository: Tuṅga dynasty (tfb-tunga-epigraphy).

Version: (00ac98f), last modified (00ac98f).

Edition

⟨Page 1v⟩

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Commentary

Bibliographical reference : Sircar EI 34 1962 p 92-94 Sahu OHRJ 7,1 1958 p60-70 ; ARIE 1958-1959 CP n 15 ; 1003 gai 1986. Acharya Acharya 2014, n. 32, p. 388 : " invocatory verse oṃ namaḥ viśuddhajñānadehāyaḥ traivedīdivyacakṣuṣe | śreyaprāptinimittāyaḥ namaḥ satvārthatyāyine ||" There are 6 customary verses. ’The two verses written in lines 18 20 are not usually met in the epigraphical literature of India" ; Acharya Acharya 2014, n. 33, p. 388:" only charter of Gayātuṅga in which the ruler is described as paramasaugata a buddhist title while in his other plates as well as in the plates of Vinītatuṅga the rulers assumed the śaivite title of paramamāheśvara. It may be said that the charter was issued earlier than the other three plates of Gayāḍatuṅga" For this last part of the note, I am wondering how Acharya knows that this charter was issued before the others because there is no date.

Bibliography

Secondary

Tripathy, Snigdha. 2010. Descriptive topographical catalogue of Orissan inscriptions. New Delhi: Manohar Publishers & Distributors. Item 10, page 58.

Acharya, Subrata Kumar. 2014. Copper-plate inscriptions of Odisha: a descriptive catalogue (circa fourth century to sixteenth century CE). New Delhi: D. K. Printworld. Item 3, pages 388–389.