This set of copper plates were found alongside a second Viṣṇukundin charter in the village of Tummalagūdem in Rāmannapeṭa taluk in the Nalgoṇḍa district of Telingana.
The charter records the donation of the village of Iṛudērō to the monks of the Ārya-saṁgha who reside in the Paramabhaṭṭārikā-mahāvihāra in the town of Indrapura. The Paramabhaṭṭārikā-mahāvihāra is recorded as having been built by a Queen called Paramabhaṭṭārikā-mahādēvī. The donation was made by Vikramēndravarman II on the 8th day of the dark half of the month of Kārtika in the 11th year of Vikramēndravarman’s reign. The inscription states that the donation was made when Vikramēndravarman visited Indrapura on his return from defeating a Pallava named Siṁha.
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| Inscription ID | EIAD175 |
| Title | Tummalagudem Charter of Vikramendravarman II, year 11 |
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| Author | Arlo Griffiths |
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| Language | संस्कृतम् |
| Reigning monarch | Vikramendravarman II |
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| Topic | Registers the gift of a village to a Buddhist monastery. |
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| Min | 566 |
| Max | 567 |
| Comment | Basis for dating: intrinsic. Eleventh regnal year of Vikramendravarman II of the Viṣṇukuṇḍin dynasty, 488 śaka, approximately in 566-67 CE. |
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| Description | Southern Brāhmī script |
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| Description | Campus dimensions unavailable. 45 lines. |
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| References | First described and edited (with photo) by Sastri in Bharati 1965, followed by Rama Rao 1965: 733–8, Sankaranarayanan 1974: 15–20 (pl. VI-VII) and Mirashi 1982b: 135–8. Re-edited by Arlo Griffiths and Vincent Tournier, with contributions by Stefan Baums and Ingo Strauch, for EIAD from published documentation and after autopsy of the plates. |
| Add to bibliography | See also ARIE 1968-69: 2, no. A.3; Sankaranarayanan 1977a: 172–5 (no. VIII); Hanumantha Rao et al. 1998: 202–7. |
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