Penukonda Plates of Mādhava II (495 AD)

Editor: Amandine Wattelier-Bricout.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSEI14_24.

Language: Sanskrit.

Repository: BESTOW - Amandine Wattelier-Bricout's Post-doc project (BESTOW).

Version: (e32d651), last modified (e32d651).

Edition

⟨Page 1v⟩

⟨1⟩ ⟨2⟩ ⟨3⟩ ⟨4⟩ ⟨5⟩ ⟨Page 2r⟩ ⟨6⟩ ⟨7⟩ ⟨8⟩ ⟨9⟩ ⟨10⟩ ⟨Page 2v⟩ ⟨11⟩ ⟨12⟩ ⟨13⟩ ⟨14⟩ ⟨15⟩ ⟨Page 3r⟩ ⟨16⟩ yo ’sya harttā sa pañcamahāpātaka-samyukto bhavati|| Api cātra manu-gītāḥ ślokāḥ

I. Anuṣṭubh

⟨17⟩ bahubhir vvasudhā bhuktā

a

rājabhiḥ sagarādibhiḥ

b

yasya yasya yadā bhūmis

c

tasya tasya tadā phalam

d
II. Anuṣṭubh

⟨18⟩ svan dātuṁ sumahac chakyan

a

du¿ṣ?⟨ḥ⟩kham anyārttha–pālanam

b

dānaṁ vā pālanaṁ veti

c

danāc chreyo ’nupālanam

d
III. Anuṣṭubh

⟨19⟩ sva-dattām para-dattāṁ vā

a

yo hareta vasundharāM

b

ṣaṣṭi-varṣa-sahasrāṇi

c

ghore tamasi varttate

d

⟨20⟩ Iti suvarṇṇakārārryaputreṇa Apāpena likhiteyan tāmra-paṭṭikā

Apparatus

Translation

Commentary

Dynasty of Gaṅga kings of Mysore ; three plates with four faces engraved (5 lines per face); grant of 65 paddy fields to a Brahmin by the Gaṅga king Mādhava, Fleet’s opinion on the date: 475 AD

Each stanza starts at the beginning of a line and the w are all inscribed on the third plate

Bibliography

Primary

[R] Rice, B. Lewis. 1917–1918. “Penukonda Plates of Madhava II (III).” EI 14, pp. 331–339.