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.
(1–8) From the illustrious and victorious Veṅgīpura, by the order of the illustrious and victorious great king Devavarman, who is favored by the feet of Lord Citrarathasvāmin, devoted to the feet of his lord father, supreme devotee of Maheśvara, the Śālaṅkāyana, sacrificer of the Aśvamedha, in Elūra, the village headed by (its) headmen is to be addressed:
(8–14) ‘To this Gaṇaśarman of the gotra of the Babhrus, in (this) charming place (i.e. Elūra), are ordered (to be given): twenty 20 nivartanas of land, a house site, a house site for those who receive half the crop and the doorkeepers, along with exemption and protection. And so (it) has to exempted with all exemptions.’
(14–15) In the victorious year (being) thirteen 13, on the tenth 10 (day) of the dark fortnight of Pauṣa.
I.
The giver of land revels sixty thousand years in heaven; the one who confiscates [land] as well as the one who allows [the confiscation] will reside as many [years] in hell.
II.
By many land has been given; and by many it has been protected. Whoever holds land at a given moment, to him does the fruit then belong.