This set of four copper plates records the donation of the village of Vidēnūrapallikā in Kuḍuhāra to 150 Brāhmaṇas of various gōtras and charaṇas who lived in the agrahāra village of Kuravaka. The donation was made by Nandivarman and was issued from Vēṅgīpura, which has been identified as the modern village of Pedavegi.
The charter is dated to the 8th day of the dark fortnight of Paush in the 7th year of Nandivarman’s reign.
Within the inscription Nandivarman is described as the eldest son of Chaṇḍavarman.
(1-4) Hail! From the victorious Veṅgīpura, the great king, the illustrious and victorious (śrī-vijaya) Nandivarman, blessed by the feet of the Lord Citrarathasvāmin, devotee of the feet of Bappabhaṭṭāraka, devout worshiper of the Lord, the Śālaṅkāyana, eldest son of the great king Acaṇḍavarman, gives an order to the villagers with their headman (mutuḍa), in the village Videtūrapallikā, in the Kuḍuhāra district:
(4-7) “By us, for the purpose of increasing the merit (dharma), fame, beauty and renown of our family and gotra, this village has been given to these hundred and fifty-seven Brahmins, studying various schools and belonging to various gotras, residents of the Kuravaka and Śrīvara agrahāras.
(7-11) Having understood this, courtiers and royal servants, appointed to the government of the land, should exempt it from all taxes and protect it. A charter was given on the eighth of the waning fortnight of the month Pauṣya of the seventh year of [his] prosperous and victorious reign. The executor (ājñapti) was the freeholder (bhojaka) of Mūlakura.”
I.
By numerous [kings], 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.
II.
The giver of land revels sixty thousand years in heaven; the one who confiscates [land] as well as the one who agrees [to the confiscation] will reside as many [years] in hell.