Gatarei Plate of Khaḍgatuṅga

Editor: Amandine Wattelier-Bricout.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSTunga00011.

Hand description:

Language: Sanskrit.

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

Version: (6a77d8b), last modified (6a77d8b).

Edition

⟨Page 1v⟩

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Translation

Commentary

Bibliographical reference : S Tripathy DTC p 167-168 not yet edited . altogether 6 verses; two metrically defective verses in lines 8-14 and four customary verses at the end of the charter lines 39-45. The king is said to belong to the Kanva gotra (while it is siad to belong to th saandilya gotra in other grants); the village was granted to another donee in INSTunga00003 but it is not certain why the same village was re-granted to another brahmin.

Bibliography

Primary

Acharya, Subrata Kumar. 2022. Inscriptions of the minor ruling dynasties of Odisha (circa 8th-12th century CE). Delhi: Agam Kala Prakashan.

Secondary

Tripathy, Snigdha. 2010. Descriptive topographical catalogue of Orissan inscriptions. New Delhi: Manohar Publishers & Distributors. Item 7, pages 167–168.

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 10, pages 397–398.