Duddukkūru plates, time of Viṣṇugopavarman, year 17

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis (emfr).

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Language: Sanskrit (san) [Southern Brāhmī (other) (brāhmī_southern_other)].

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPallava00394.

File path: DHARMA_INSPallava00394.xml.

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Plates

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⟨1v1=1⟩ […] […]
⟨1v2=2⟩ […]
⟨1v3=3⟩ […]
⟨1v4=4⟩ […]
⟨1v5=5⟩ […]-

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⟨2r1=6⟩ -sampannasya pratāpopanata-rāja-maṇḍalasya śrī-vi-
⟨2r2=7⟩ ṣṇu-gopavarmmaṇa⟨ḥ⟩ pautra⟨ḥ⟩ ...
⟨2r3=8⟩ ...
⟨2r4=9⟩ ...
⟨2r5=10⟩ ... siṁha-varmmaṇa⟨ḥ⟩ putro

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⟨2v1=11⟩ ...
⟨2v2=12⟩ ...
⟨2v3=13⟩ ...
⟨2v4=14⟩ ...
⟨2v5=15⟩ ...

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⟨3r1=16⟩ ...
⟨3r2=17⟩ ...
⟨3r3=18⟩ ...
⟨3r4=19⟩ ... mahārāja-śrī-viṣṇugopa-varmm¿a?
⟨3r5=20⟩ ...

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⟨3v1=21⟩ ...

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⟨4r1=27⟩ ...

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⟨4v1=32⟩ bhūmi-dān¿a?t saman d¿a?nam iha loke na vidyate ... ... ... ... ... ... pravar¿dh?amāna-

⟨4v4=35⟩ -vijaya-...

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Apparatus

Plates

⟨6⟩ °sampannasya ⬦ D; °saṁpannasya PS. — ⟨6⟩ pratāpopanata° ⬦ D; pratāpopanatā PS.

⟨7⟩ °gopavarmmaṇa⟨ḥ⟩ ⬦ °gopavarmaṇa PS; °gopavarmmaṇa D.

⟨10⟩ siṁhavarmmaṇa⟨ḥ⟩ ⬦ simhavarmaṇa PS; simhavarmmaṇa D. — ⟨10⟩ putro ⬦ D; poutro PS.

⟨19⟩ viṣṇugopavarmm¿a?⟨ā⟩ ⬦ viṣṇugopavarmma PS D.

⟨32⟩ °dān¿a?⟨ā⟩t saman d¿a?⟨ā⟩nam ⬦ °dānat samandan m PS D.

⟨34⟩ pravar¿dh?⟨ddh⟩amāna° ⬦ pravardhamāna° PS; pravarddhamāna° D.

Translation

⟨1⟩ […]

⟨1⟩ [From] […]:

⟨1–29⟩

[great grand-son of] […]
grand-son of ...
son of ...
the glorious Viṣṇugopavarman ...

...

⟨29–30⟩ ...

⟨31⟩ ...

...

⟨34–37⟩ ...

Bibliography

Reported in Gupta 2008, in ARIE 1990–91 (ARIE/1990-1991/A/1990-1991/6).

Text in Dayalan 2005 (text supplied to him by Padmanabha Sastry). Edited in Padmanabha Sastry 2013 (some pages inverted), without visual documentation.

This digital edition by Emmanuel Francis, based on the previous editions.¹ Thanks to Arlo Griffiths and Tamiḻ Celvaṉ for pointing out relevant publications.

Primary

[D] Dayalan, D. 2005. Computer application in Indian epigraphy (Pallava period). 3 vols. New Delhi: Bharatiya Kala Prakashan. Volume 3, appendix I, pages 1235–1236, item 3.

[PS] Padmanabha Sastry, C. A. 2013. “Duddukuru (set I) plates of Pallava Vishṇugopavarma, year 17.” Quarterly Journal of the Mythic Society 104.

Secondary

ARIE 1990–91. Annual report on Indian epigraphy for 1990-91. Edited by Madhav N. Katti. New Delhi: Archaeological Survey of India, 2006. Pp. 2-3, 22-23, Appendix A/1990-1991/6.

Gupta, S. S. 2008. Sculptures and antiquities in the Archaeological Museum, Amarāvatī. New Delhi: D.K. Printworld. Page 146, item 1062.

IAR 1987-88. Indian Archaeology 1987-88: A Review. Edited by M. C. Joshi. New Delhi: Archaeological Survey of India, 1993. Pages 117–118.

Padmanabha Sastry, C. A. 2003. “Three seals from three Pallava copper plates.” SSIC 13, pp. 31–34.

Padmanabha Sastry, C. A. 2008. Dynastic list of copper plate inscriptions: Noticed in Annual Reports on Indian Epigraphy from 1969-70 to 1996-97. New Delhi: Archaeological Survey of India. Page 38, item 169.

Notes

1. Partial and tentative edition since no visual documentation is available and since both existing editions are not carefully edited.

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