Mota Machiala plates of Dharasena II, [Valabhī] year 252, Vaiśākha ba. 15

Editor: Annette Schmiedchen.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSMaitraka00035.

Summary: Grant of land (300 pādāvarta and one more field as well as two cisterns surrounded by altogether 52 pādāvarta) in favour of a Yajurvedin.

Language: Sanskrit.

Repository: Maitraka (tfb-maitraka-epigraphy).

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

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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.