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.
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| Inscription ID | EIAD166 |
| Title | Pedavegi Charter of Nandivarman II, year 10 |
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| Author | Arlo Griffiths |
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| Language | संस्कृतम् |
| Reigning monarch | Nandivarman II |
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| Topic | 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’ |
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| Min | 400 |
| Max | 450 |
| Comment | Intrinsic date: 10th year of the reign of Nandivarman II of the Śālaṅkāyana dynasty, i.e. the first half of the 5th century. In the inscription, Nandivarman is referred to as the great grandson of Hastivarman, the grandson of Nandivarman and the eldest son of Chaṇḍavarman. |
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| Description | Southern Brāhmī script |
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| Description | Campus dimensions unavailable. 24 lines. 3 lines on both sides of each plate, except the first plate, which is blank on the recto and has 2 lines on the verso, and the fifth plate, which has 3 lines on the recto and 2 on the verso. |
| Decoration | The plates are secured with a ring and a seal bearing an indistinct image. |
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| References | 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. |
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| Misc notes | The original printing of Subba Rao 1926 does not represent any of the doubled consonants that are a systematic feature of the spelling of this grant after r; both printings of this edition (1926 an 1948) also show word breaks where there should not be any, and suffer from numerous deficiencies regarding the use of diacritics — although on the whole the second printing clearly represents an effort to improve the first. |