Bargarh copper plate of Maharaja Narayan Singh of Sambalpur
Editor: Amandine Wattelier-Bricout.
Identifier: DHARMA_INSChauhan00001.
Language: Sanskrit.
Repository: BESTOW - Amandine Wattelier-Bricout's Post-doc project (BESTOW).
Version: (e32d651), last modified (021fefb).
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I. Anuṣṭubh
sva-dattāṁ para-dattāṁ vā
a¿p?⟨y⟩o hare¿vai?⟨ta⟩ vasu⟨22⟩ndharā⟨m⟩
b¡s!⟨ṣ⟩aṣṭi-var¡ś!⟨ṣ⟩a-saha¿th?⟨sr⟩āṇi
cviṣ¿ṭ?⟨ṭh⟩ā⟨23⟩yāṁ jāyate kr̥m¡ī ku!⟨iḥ⟩
dApparatus
⟨23⟩ kr̥m¡ī ku!⟨iḥ⟩ • According to Das and De 1953, n. 23, p. 32, ku is an abbreviation for kula and means "by generations".
Translation by Das and De 1953
(This) belongs to Maharajadhiraj Sri Narayana Singh Deva. (It is granted to) the two brothers Narayana Das, gauntia and Krushna Das gauntia. Since you are well-wishers of the king, you have continuously rendered service to the king with good reputation and your father,Baluki Das having lost his head in kings service, the village Badagada is granted as a piece of charity to you by means of this bloody deed (raktapata) you are ordered that you will enjoy for ever bazar duties, other taxes, land, placed under water minerals and mines, wood, stone trees, fish, shades and places under shadow of the village. You and your successors will continue to be the well wisher of the government and always render service to it. He who takes away the land granted by himself or by others becomes worm in human excreta for sixty thousand years. this much. this much, 3rd bara. The 3rd bara and the 7th day of the month of Margasira of the year 1901. Signed.
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Plate preserved at Prof. N.K. Sahu Museum, Sambalpur University, Orissa. Link to the photos: https://didomena.ehess.fr/concern/data_sets/bn999g653. Date: 1844; Plate in Oriya language except for the customary stanza. Alternative name: Sirkata copper plate grant of Mahārāja Narayan Singh of Sambalpur