Fragment of a plate from Baigram
Editors: Amandine Wattelier-Bricout, Arlo Griffiths.
Identifier: DHARMA_INSBengalCharters00050.
Language: Sanskrit.
Repository: Bengal Copper Plates (tfb-bengalcharters-epigraphy).
Version: (3b1ee6e), last modified (ec34e13).
Edition
⟨Page 1r⟩ ⟨1r1⟩ […]pitrā śivanandinā[1×] […] ⟨1r2⟩ […] [1×]ca śvaśuraśivanandi[…] ⟨1r3⟩ […]vasādaṅ gacchanti ruca[…] ⟨1r4⟩ […]dīnārikkyakulyavāpavi[…] ⟨1r5⟩ […]saṅg¿a?⟨r̥⟩hya sa devakulavā[…] ⟨1r6⟩ […]ya ca vaṭa(gohālīkhi)[…]
⟨Page 1v⟩ ⟨1v1⟩ [1 lost line] ⟨1v2⟩ […](ro)dha Upacaya Eva[1×] […] ⟨1v3⟩ […]nandivaṅganandiya[1×] […] ⟨1v4⟩ […]yīkṛtya śīgoUli[…] ⟨1v5⟩ […]stuno doṇavapaca[…] ⟨1v6⟩ […]ri [1×] y(ū)yaṁ svakarṣaṇā[…]
Apparatus
⟨1r5⟩ saṅg¿a?⟨r̥⟩hya • The intended reading may have been [upa]saṅgr̥hya. Although not occurring in the Baigram plate, there are several occurrences in related inscriptions. See, e.g., the Raktamālā grant #2, line 9 and the Tāvīra grant, line 10.
⟨1v4⟩ śīgoUli • If this is indeed what was written, the intended reading must have been śrīgohāli. On this toponym best known from the Baigram plate, see Griffiths 2018, § 3.1.
⟨1v5⟩ doṇavapaca • The intended reading was [sthalavā]stuno droṇavāpaca[tuṣṭayaṁ]. See the Baigram plate, lines 9 and 16–18.
⟨1v6⟩ ri [1×] • Perhaps restore/read [catvā]ri 4?
Bibliography
Notes
- 1. http://museumsofindia.gov.in/repository/record/im_kol-A20050-9085-18. Accessed in May 2024.
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<p>I found this fragment by chance during perusal of the Museums of India website, which indicates that it is preserved at the Indian Museum, Kolkata, under accession number A20050/9085.<note><ref target="http://museumsofindia.gov.in/repository/record/im_kol-A20050-9085-18">http://museumsofindia.gov.in/repository/record/im_kol-A20050-9085-18</ref>. Accessed in May 2024.</note>
Subsequently, I learned from Ryosuke Furui that he has seen the fragment in that very museum, and was able to make the photographs that he has kindly allowed me to publish. The website indicates dimensions 4.9 × 4.7 cm, and provenance from Baigram in Bangladesh. Although no mention of this fragment is known to me from any printed publication of the colonial or post-colonial periods, the information about provenance is borne out by several correspondences with the well-known <ref target="DHARMA_INSBengalCharters00049.xml">Baigram plate</ref>.</p>
<p>The contents, to the extent recoverable, reveal a clear connection with the <ref target="DHARMA_INSBengalCharters00049.xml">Baigram plate</ref>, because the name Śivanandi figures there too, as father of the purchasers Bhoyila and Bhāskara (line 3–4: <foreign>āvayoḥ pittrā śivanandinā</foreign>), as does the toponym Śrīgohālī. It is remarkable that this fragment contains several incomplete <foreign>akṣara</foreign>s — a kind of error not encountered with such frequency, if at all, in other inscriptions of the corpus. Nevertheless, the fragment is a valuable little scrap of information, revealing that the known Baigram plate must have been part of a hoard, that would have contained two or more plates forming the archive of a particular shrine or family, like the Damodarpur plates (<ref target="DHARMA_INSBengalCharters00047.xml">#1</ref>, <ref target="DHARMA_INSBengalCharters00048.xml">#2</ref>, <ref target="DHARMA_INSBengalCharters00032.xml">#3</ref>, <ref target="DHARMA_INSBengalCharters00053.xml">#4</ref>, <ref target="DHARMA_INSBengalCharters00056.xml">#5</ref>).
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Commentary
I found this fragment by chance during perusal of the Museums of India website, which indicates that it is preserved at the Indian Museum, Kolkata, under accession number A20050/9085.1 Subsequently, I learned from Ryosuke Furui that he has seen the fragment in that very museum, and was able to make the photographs that he has kindly allowed me to publish. The website indicates dimensions 4.9 × 4.7 cm, and provenance from Baigram in Bangladesh. Although no mention of this fragment is known to me from any printed publication of the colonial or post-colonial periods, the information about provenance is borne out by several correspondences with the well-known Baigram plate.
The contents, to the extent recoverable, reveal a clear connection with the Baigram plate, because the name Śivanandi figures there too, as father of the purchasers Bhoyila and Bhāskara (line 3–4: āvayoḥ pittrā śivanandinā), as does the toponym Śrīgohālī. It is remarkable that this fragment contains several incomplete akṣaras — a kind of error not encountered with such frequency, if at all, in other inscriptions of the corpus. Nevertheless, the fragment is a valuable little scrap of information, revealing that the known Baigram plate must have been part of a hoard, that would have contained two or more plates forming the archive of a particular shrine or family, like the Damodarpur plates (#1, #2, #3, #4, #5).