Palitana plates of Dhruvasena I, [Valabhī] year 206, Bhadrapada śu. 5

Editor: Annette Schmiedchen.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSMaitraka00002.

Summary: Grant of several plots of land (396 pādāvarta two cisterns) in favour of two Sāmavedins from Śaṅkaravāṭaka.

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Language: Sanskrit.

Repository: Maitraka (tfb-maitraka-epigraphy).

Version: (f455aac), last modified (4731020).

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Translation by Annette Schmiedchen

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Bibliography

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[S2014] Schmiedchen, Annette. 2014. Herrschergenealogie und religiöses Patronat: die Inschriftenkultur der Rāṣṭrakūṭas, Śilāhāras und Yādavas (8. bis 13. Jahrhundert). Gonda Indological Studies 17. Leiden: Brill.