This charter records the donation of a field ‘only for enjoyment’, a farm house and four residences of ploughmen in the administrative division of Kośika. The donation was made to the Brāhmaṇas of the Taittirīya śākhā of the Black Yajurveda and Parāśara gotra by Prabhāvatī Guptā in the 19th year of Pravarasena II’s reign. The charter includes reference to Prabhāvatī Guptā’s Gupta lineage alongside that of her Vākāṭaka heritage. The charter also includes a reference to Prabhāvatī Guptā’s two sons, both of whom were rulers Dāmodarasena and Pravarasena II (Shastri 1997: 21-23).

Bibliographic information

First reported and edited by Y. R. Gupte in Marathi in Bhārata Itihāsa Saṃśodhaka Maṇḍala Quarterly, vol. III (nos. 2-4), p89ff (publication year unknown). Reported in English in Gupte 1924a and Gupte 1924b. Re-edited in English in Gupte 1924c, and re-edited again in Mirashi 1963. Correction in Agrawal 1940: 58-59 and Agrawal 1986a: 27-28. Discussed in Shastri 1997: 20-23.

Inscription Concordance

Gupte (1924a) 48

Gupte (1924b) 94-96

Gupte (1924c) 53-62

Bhandarkar (1929) 240-241, no. 1706

Agrawal (1940) 58-59

Mirashi (1963) 33-38, no. 8

Sircar (1965) (vol. 1) 439-442, bk. III, no. 61

Agrawal (1986a) 27-28

Goyal (1993) 375-376

Shastri (1997) 20-23