This set of four copper plates were originally secured together with a ring and a damaged seal. The exact location where the charter was found is unknown.
The charter records the donation of twenty nivartanas of land and a site for a house and servants quarters in the village of Ēlūra to Gaṇaśarman. The donation was made by Vijaya-Devavarman who is described in the inscription as a devotee of Chitrarathasvāmin and as a performer of ‘horse sacrifices’.
The charter was issued from Vēṅgīpura, which has been identified as the modern village of Pedavegi. The Ēlūra mentioned in the inscription has been identified as the modern town of Ellore/Eluru.
The grant is dated to the 10th day of the dark fortnight of Pausha in the 13th year of Devavarman’s reign.
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| Inscription ID | EIAD159 |
| Title | Ellore Charter of Devavarman, year 13 |
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| Author | Arlo Griffiths |
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| Language | Prakrit , संस्कृतम् |
| Reigning monarch | Devavarman |
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| Topic | donation of twenty nivartanas of land and a site for a house and servants quarters in the village of Ēlūra to Gaṇaśarman |
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| Min | 300 |
| Max | 350 |
| Comment | Intrinsic date: 10th day of the dark fortnight of Pausha in the 13th year of the reign of Devavarman of the Śālaṅkāyana dynasty, i.e. approximately in the first half of the 4th century. The language is Prakrit prose, except the last plate which has two of the customary Sanskrit verses. |
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| Description | Southern Brāhmī script |
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| Description | Campus dimensions unavailable. 19 lines in total with 3 lines on both sides of each plate, except the first plate, which is blank on the recto and has 2 lines on the verso, and the fourth plate, which has 5 lines on the recto and is blank on the verso. |
| Decoration | None. |
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| References | First described and edited in Hultzsch 1907-08. Re-edited by Emmanuel Francis and Arlo Griffith for EIAD. See also ARIE 1906: 65–6 (§55), no. A.33; Srinivasa Ayyangar 1918: 36; Gopalan 1928: 73; Gai 1986: no. 863; and Krishnan and Sundaram 1989: 13–5, no. 8. |
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