’Mohenjodaro’ plates of Dharasena II, [Valabhī] year 252, Vaiśākha ba. 15

Editor: Annette Schmiedchen.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSMaitraka00034.

Summary: Grant of land (174 pādāvarta and two more fields as well as pond and a cistern surrounded by 12 pādāvarta) in favour of a Yajurvedin.

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Language: Sanskrit.

Repository: Maitraka (tfb-maitraka-epigraphy).

Version: (f455aac), last modified (552eb3d).

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Apparatus

Translation by Annette Schmiedchen

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Bibliography

Primary

[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.