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Inscription ID IN00086
Title Khoh Initial Charter Fragment of Sarvanatha
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Parent Object OB00078
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Author Dániel Balogh
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Language संस्कृतम्
Reigning monarch Śarvanātha
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Date:
Min 495
Max 540
Comment Basis of dating: approximate reign of Śarvanātha.
Hand
Letter size 0.5
Description northern class, same type as IN00082
Layout
Campus:
Width 18
Height 14.5
Description Dimensions estimated from plate size. 16 lines of text.
Decoration None.
Bibliography
References First noticed and translated in ASIR 09: 15-16 (the first half of Cunningham's No. 8). First edited (from the original) in Fleet 1888. Summarised in Trivedi 2001: 50 (No. 6).
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Misc notes

The inscription seems to be a perfect first half for IN00087, but I follow Fleet in editing the two as separate. Fleet admits the apparent connectedness of the text but notes (Fleet 1888: 132n3) that “the edges of [OB00079] are rounded off more; the copper is of a totally different quality, thickness, and weight; and the characters, though of just the same period, differ very much in details of execution … there can, on the whole, be no doubt that in [OB00078] and [OB00079] we have the first and second plates of two separate grants; not one entire grant.” The additional dūtaka mentioned at the end of IN00087 may also be an indication that the two plates belong to disparate grants, since there is no mention of halirākara in IN00086.