This set of 5 coppers plates were found near Pedavegi and are secured together with a ring and seal. The image on the seal is indistinct.
The charter records the donation by Nandivarman of four plots of land in different villages to the cow-herders of Arutore, to support the god Vishnugrihasvāmin ‘the lord of the three worlds’. The details of the donation are:
– 10 nivartanas in Prālura
– 10 nivartanas in Munduru
– 6 nivartanas in Chencheruvu
– 6 nivartanas in Kambuvancheruvu
The charter was issued from Vēṅgīpura, which has been identified as the modern village of Pedavegi on the day of Sukla Pādyami in the month of Srāvana in the 10th year of Nandivarman’s reign.
In the inscription, Nandivarman is referred to as the great grandson of Hastivarman, the grandson of Nandivarman and the eldest son of Chaṇḍavarman.
Subba Rao states that Munduru is the modern village of Mundūr and that Kambuvancheruvu is located in the modern village of Kamburan Cheruvu.
First published by M.S. Sarma, Bharathi, August 1924 (in Telugu), and then by Subba Rao 1926 , of which there is a 1948 printing, which is not a faithful reprint. Re-edited by Emmanuel Francis and Arlo Griffiths for EIAD. See also ARIE 1924-25: 73-5, no. A.3, Gai 1969, no. 860, and Krishnan and Sundaram 1989, 139-41, no. 71.
ARIE (1924-25) 73-5, no. A.3
Subba Rao (1926) 92-102
Bhandarkar (1929) 292, no. 2089
Gai (1986) 138, no. 860
Krishnan and Sundaram (1989) 139-41, no. 71
EIAD (2017) EIAD 166