This set of 8 copper plates was unearthed alongside a second Śālaṅkāyana copper plate in the village of Kānukollu, Guḍivāḍa taluk in 1940. The copper plates were found in the earth near the ramparts of an old fort, gold and lead coins have also been found in the same location.
The plates are secured together with a ring and seal and the chart records the donation of the village of Piḍiha by Nandivarman to the Chāturvaidya community in Rathakāra. The donation was made to increase the spiritual merit of Nandivarman and to increase the fame of Bālakamahārāja-kumāra Khaṁdapotta.
The charter was issued from Vēṅgīpura, which has been identified as the modern village of Pedavegi on the 1st day of the 2nd fortnight of the rainy season in the 14th year of Nandivarman’s reign.
Krishna Rao 1955-56 argues that this charter was issued by Nandivarman I and is not the same Nandivarman of the Pedavegi copper plate.
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| Inscription ID | EIAD161 |
| Title | Kānukollu Charter of Nandivarman, year 14 |
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| Author | Arlo Griffiths |
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| Language | Prakrit , संस्कृतम् |
| Reigning monarch | Nandivarman I |
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| Topic | donation of the village of Piḍiha by Nandivarman to the Chāturvaidya community in Rathakāra |
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| Min | 350 |
| Max | 399 |
| Comment | Intrinsic dating: issued on the 1st day of the 2nd fortnight of the rainy season in the 14th year of the reign of Nandivarman I of the Śālaṅkāyana dynasty, i.e. approximately in the second half of the 4th century. The language of the inscription is Prakrit prose with the exception of lines 30-37 which contain two customary verses in Sanskrit. |
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| Description | Southern Brāhmī script |
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| Description | Campus dimensions unavailable. 40 lines with 3 lines on both sides of each plate, except for the first plate (blank on the recto, 2 lines on the verso), the sixth plate (3 lines on the recto, 2 lines on the verso), the seventh plate (2 lines on the recto, 3 lines on the verso) and the eighth plate (4 lines on the recto, blank on the verso). |
| Decoration | The plates are secured with a ring and seal. The seal originally bore an inscription and image but it is now too corroded to read. |
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| References | First edited by Krishna Rao 1955-56: 1-7 . Re-edited by Emmanuel Francis and Arlo Griffiths for EIAD. See also ARIE 1946-47: 1, no. A.1; Chhabra et al. 1949: 46-47; Ramanatham 1949-50; Bhārati, April 1950, 69ff; Gai 1969: no. 861; Krishnan and Sundaram 1989: 67-70, no. 33. |
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