Alavakoṇḍa copper plates, time of Viṣṇugopa, year 1

Editor: Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00376.

Summary: Grant (brahmadeya), with all exemptions, of the village of ... to a Brahmin.

Languages: Prakrit, Sanskrit.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

Version: (e8a670e), last modified (3bf413d).

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⟨1v1=1⟩ vijayatthāṇā mahārājassa Appadi(ha)ta-sāsaṇassa s(ā)ma⟨1v2=2⟩... ⟨1v3=3⟩ ... ⟨1v4=4⟩ ... ⟨Page 2r⟩ ⟨2r1=5⟩ ... ⟨2r2=6⟩ ... ⟨2r3=7⟩ ... ⟨2r4=8⟩ ... ⟨Page 2v⟩⟨left: (2) ⟨2v1=9⟩ ... ⟨2v2=10⟩ ... ⟨2v3=11⟩ ... ⟨2v4=12⟩ ... ⟨Page 3r⟩ ⟨3r1=4=13⟩ ... ⟨3r2=14⟩ ... ⟨3r3=15⟩ ... ⟨Page 3v⟩⟨left: (3) ⟨3v1=16⟩ ... ⟨3v2=17⟩ ... ⟨2v3=18⟩ ... ⟨Page 4r⟩ ⟨4r1=19⟩ ... ⟨4r2=20⟩ ñcamī 5

I. Anuṣṭubh

bahubhir vvasudhā dattā

a

bah(u)bhiś cānupālitā

b

yasya yasya ya⟨4r3=21⟩dā bhūmis

c

tasya tasya tadā phalaM

d
II. Anuṣṭubh

svadattāṁ paradattāṁ vā

a

yo hareta vasu⟨4r4=22⟩ndharāM

b

gavāṁ śata-sahasrasya

c

hantuḥ ⟨⟨p(i)⟩⟩bati duṣkṛtaM

d

Iti

svasti

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(22) Thus [it is said].

(23) Fortune!

Translation into French by Emmanuel Francis

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Commentary

Bibliography

Edited in Reddy and Krishna Reddy 2000 with facsimile; re-edited here by Emmanuel Francis (2023) , based on published estampages.

Primary

[RKR] Reddy, A. K. V. S. and N. Krishna Reddy. 2000. “A newly discovered Prākrit copper plate grant of Pallava Viṣṇugōpavarman, year 1.” In: Śāṅkaram: Recent researches on Indian culture (Professor Srinivasa Sankaranarayanan Festschrift). Edited by S. S. Ramachandra Murthy, B. Rajendra Prasad and D. Kiran Kranth Choudary. New Delhi: Harman Pub. House, pp. 67–70.

Secondary

[EF] Francis, Emmanuel. 2013. Le discours royal dans l'Inde du Sud ancienne : inscriptions et monuments Pallava, IVème-IXème siècles. Tome I : Introduction et sources. Publications de l'Institut orientaliste de Louvain 64. Louvain-la-Neuve; Paris: Université catholique de Louvain, Institut orientaliste; Peeters. Item IR 5.