London Plates of Maṅgi Yuvarāja

Seal

Plates

⟨4⟩ -snān¿ā?⟨a⟩-pavitrīkr̥ta- • Here, nāpa may be a correction from pa, and the apparent ā marker of nā may be part of the pre-correction character.

⟨5⟩ °(m)uditendo(r) • This segment of text is very hard to read because of glare in the closeup photo of the page. One photo of two facing pages shows it without glare, but in quite poor resolution. The body of mu is indiscernible here but may be clear in the original plate. The remaining characters can be confidently identified in this latter photo.

⟨6⟩ -samā[na-vikramasya śrī] • My restoration is slightly too short for the lacuna; there may have been one or two additional characters here. -samāna-vikramasya śrī I° is a definite possibility.

⟨9⟩ °hita- • In the photo, these characters are obscured by the ring, but probably clear in the original.

⟨10⟩ °kr̥ta° • These characters are obscured by the ring except for the r̥ marker, but are probably clear in the original.

⟨12⟩ -dhāraṇa- • The actual intent must have been -dhārā°; compare e.g. line 8 of the Koṇeki Grant, line 6 of the Timmapuram plates.

⟨14⟩ -¿(ca)?⟨sa⟩bra(hmacāriṇe) • The word may have been conflated with -caraṇāya. — ⟨14⟩ [ca]⟨15⟩yana◯ • The first two characters in line 15 are quite clear in the new photos. It is unlikely that more than one character is illegible at the end of line 14, and the faint vestiges are compatible with ca, but a different restoration may well be possible.

⟨18⟩ [ca. 25+] • This lacuna would have probably contained the phrase uttara-diśi, ending with etac-catur-avadhi and the number of khaṇḍikās. Compare the Elūru grant of Maṅgi Yuvarāja for a similarly structured description.

⟨20⟩ śuddhe • The reading of this word is quite secure, but it cannot be placed in the legible context. Possibly, śuddho was intended, qualifying either the donated land (e.g. catur-āghāṭa-viśuddho or sarvvādāna-viśuddho; the latter is paralleled (with the spelling viśuddhe Ity) in line 21 of the Sātārā plates) or the personal name Gaṇadugarāja (e.g. catur-upadhā-śuddho, paralleled in line 21 of the Śrīpūṇḍi grant of Tāḻa II). — ⟨20⟩ vijñapayat(i) • The vowel marker is somewhat damaged and vertically squashed due to the descender of nti in the previous line, but it is quite certainly i. I assume the intent was something like vijñaptyā or vijñāpanāt. — ⟨20⟩ ¡(vi?)(sa)!⟨viṁśe⟩ • Compare the closely related Nutulapaṟu Grant, where the spelling of the date is visaḥ in place of viṁśe.

⟨24⟩ nis(s)ā(ram)i(ṇḍi) • Thanks to the new photos of the original, this reading is reasonably secure. In all probability the same person is the executor of several other grants, but no visual documentation of any of them is available to me. In the Nutulapaṟu grant of Maṅgi Yuvarāja, fleet reads nissarami(ji?); in the Cendaṟa grant of Jayasiṁha II, Ramesan reads vissarami[2+], and in the Ariyēṟu grant of Viṣṇuvardhana III (not yet edited for DHARMA) it has been read as nissaramiṇyi for the ARIE and by Somasekhara Sarma in Bharati. — ⟨24⟩ (Utha?)s(e)na • This name remains problematic even with the new photos. The first character may also be ṭa, the second ḻa, and the third sa or se; other readings are not out of the question. I assume that Uthayana is a non-standard spelling of Udayana.