This set of four plates was first published in June 1954 after it was sent to the office of the Government Epigraphists for India by Shri M. Somasekhara Sarma of Madras. The location of its discovery is not known.
The charter records the donation of the village of Dhārikāṭūra as an agrahāra by Achaṇḍavarman who is refered to by the title Yuvamahārāja which Sircar translates as ‘crown prince’. The donated village was given to two Brāhmaṇa brothers Bhavaskandaśamārya and Bhartṛiśarmārya who belonged to the Bhemāṇa-Kāśyapa and resided in Donṇṇampi.
The charter was issued from Vēṅgīpura, which has been identified as the modern village of Pedavegi, on the 3rd day of the 6th fortnight of the rainy season in the 35th year. The year of the issue probably refers to the reign period of an unnamed king if we follow Sircar’s argument that Achaṇḍavarman was a crown prince.
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| Inscription ID | EIAD162 |
| Title | Dhārikāṭūra Charter of Achaṇḍavarman |
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| Author | Arlo Griffiths |
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| Language | Prakrit , संस्कृतम् |
| Reigning monarch | possibly Nandivarman I |
| Commissioner | Acaṇḍavarman |
| Topic | donation of the village of Dhārikāṭūra as an agrahāra by Achaṇḍavarman to two Brāhmaṇa brothers Bhavaskandaśamārya and Bhartṛiśarmārya who belonged to the Bhemāṇa-Kāśyapa and resided in Donṇṇampi |
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| Min | 350 |
| Max | 400 |
| Comment | Intrinsic date: issued on the 3rd day of the 6th fortnight of the rainy season in the 35th year. The year of the issue probably refers to the reign period of an unnamed king, possibly Nandivarman I, who, according to EIAD164, EIAD165 and EIAD166, is the father of Acaṇḍavarman, the commissioner of this charter. Achaṇḍavarman is referred to in the inscription by the title Yuvamahārāja, which Sircar translates as ‘crown prince’. |
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| Description | Southern Brāhmī script |
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| Description | Campus dimensions not available. 20 lines with 3 lines on both sides of each plate, except plate 1, which is blank on the recto and has 2 lines on the verso. |
| Decoration | The plates are secured with a ring and a seal, which bears an obliterated figure (Sircar suggests it may be a couchant bull). |
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| References | First edited by Sircar 1965-66: 1-7 . Re-edited for EIAD by Emmanuel Francis and Arlo Griffiths. See also ARIE 1954-55: 11, no. A.11, and Gai 1986: no. 857. |
| Add to bibliography | EIAD include Ghosh, A. (ed.) (1955). Indian Archaeology 1954-55 - A Review. New Delhi: Department of Archaeology, p. 26 in the secondary bibliography for this inscription but I can find no reference to this inscription in the 1954-55 volume. |
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