London Plates of Maṅgi Yuvarāja

Seal

Plates

⟨3⟩ bhaga◯van- • In the photo, the ring completely obscures the text before the hole, but it is probably clear in the original. There would have been at least one character here, but bha may instead be lost to damage at the end of line 2.

⟨4⟩ °dhā◯vabhr̥tha- • Again, text to the left of the hole is not visible, but probably clear in the original. Possibly, the preceding me may also be here instead of being lost at the end of line 3.

⟨5⟩ °(m)uditendo(r) • This segment of text is very hard to read because of glare in the closeup photo of the page. One photo of two facing pages shows it without glare, but in quite poor resolution. The body of mu is indiscernible here but may be clear in the original plate. The remaining characters can be confidently identified in this latter photo.

⟨9⟩ °hita- • In the photo, these characters are obscured by the ring, but probably clear in the original.

⟨10⟩ °kr̥ta° • These characters are obscured by the ring except for the r̥ marker, but are probably clear in the original.

⟨12⟩ -dhāraṇa- • The actual intent must have been -dhārā°; compare e.g. line 8 of the Koṇeki Grant, line 6 of the Timmapuram plates.

⟨14⟩ -¿(ca)?⟨s⟩bra(hmacāriṇe) • The word may have been conflated with -caraṇāya. — ⟨14⟩ [ca. 1+] ⟨15⟩ [ca. 2×]◯ • The first two characters in line 15 are mostly obscured by the ring in the photo, but should be clear in the original. Based on the upper parts not hidden by the ring, they might be rā and ṇa, but I cannot arrive at an intelligible reading with these. The reading may perhaps be vārāha (with vā at the end of line 14), but I cannot tell whether a vājasaneya can follow the Vārāha-sūtra. It may also be possible to read kāṇva (with nothing at the end of line 14).

⟨16⟩ °[de ṣa]° • Obscured by the ring in the photo but probably clear in the original. The restoration de depends on whether I read the end of the previous line correctly.

⟨19⟩ -¡(k)!⟨kh⟩(aṇḍ)(i)k(ā-pari)-pramāṇaṁ • Compare line 23 of the Nutulapaṟu Grant (emended and restored reading: dvādaśa-khaṇḍika-kodrava[ca. 5+]kṣetraṁ) and line 17 of the Jaḷayūru grant of Viṣṇuvardhana III (emended and restored reading: viṁśati-khaṇḍikā-vrīhi-bīja-paripramāṇaṁ kṣetraṁ).

⟨20⟩ śuddh(o) • The subscript part of the second character looks rather like th, and the final vowel may be e; nonetheless, the reading seems quite secure. The word is probably the end of a compound that may qualify either the donated land (e.g. catur-āghāṭa-viśuddho or sarvvādāna-viśuddho; the latter is paralleled in line XXX of the Sātārā plates) or the personal name Gaṇadugarāja (e.g. catur-upadhā-śuddho, paralleled in line XXX of the Śrīpūṇḍi grant of Tāḻa II). — ⟨20⟩ vijñ(a)payat(o?) • I assume the intent was something like vijñaptyā or vijñāpanāt, and Gaṇadugarāja seems to be the name of a dignitary who initiated this donation. — ⟨20⟩ [ca. 2+] • If I am correct in restoring the obscured beginning of the next line, then a very short numeral word is expected here. Given the close connections of this text to the Nutulapaṟu Grant, viṁśe (the date of that grant, though the spelling there is visaḥ) is a good candidate, and the barest vestiges visible here are compatible with vi as the first character of the lost string.

⟨21⟩ gr̥ha- • These characters are obscured in the photo by the ring, though probably clear in the original. My restoration is fully conjectural.

⟨22⟩ (c)ā⟨22⟩nupāli◯tā • The characters before the hole are again obscured in the photo by the ring.