This charter has five copper plates and records the donation of 2000 nivartanas of land by royal measure in the village of Dhuvavāṭaka (Dhruvavāṭaka) to a number of Brāhmaṇas. An additional 26 nivartanas in two other villages is recorded in the third plate as being specifically donated to the Brāhmaṇa Somārya. Both Mirashi 1963: 64 and Shastri 1997: 34-35 argue that this third plate is actually a forgery, inserted into the charter at a later date to benefit Somārya. The first part of the donation (that of the 2000 nivartanas) was issued in exchange for the earlier donation by Pṛthivīṣeṇa I of the village of Vijayavallī-vāṭaka. The charter was issued in the 29th year of Pravarasena II reign and was issued from the temple of Pravareśvara.
| Metadata | |
|---|---|
| Inscription ID | IN00171 |
| Title | Tigaon Charter of Pravarasena II |
| Alternative titles | Tigaon Plates of Pravarasena II, Pandhurna Plates of Pravarasena |
| Parent Object | OB00158 |
| Related Inscriptions | |
| Responsibility | |
| Author | Dániel Balogh |
| Print edition recorded by | Dániel Balogh |
| Source encoded | |
| Digitally edited by | |
| Edition improved by | Dániel Balogh |
| Authority for | Own research. |
| Metadata recorded by | Dániel Balogh |
| Authority for metadata | |
| Metadata improved by | |
| Authoriy for improved | |
| Language | संस्कृतम् , Prakritised Sanskrit |
| Reigning monarch | Pravarasena II |
| Commissioner | |
| Topic | donation of 2000 nivartanas of land by royal measure in the village of Dhuvavāṭaka (Dhruvavāṭaka) to a number of Brāhmaṇas |
| Date: | |
| Min | 429 |
| Max | 454 |
| Comment | Intrinsic Date: 29 (era: regnal, Pravarasena II of Nandivardhana). Basis of dating: approximate reign of Pravarasena II of the Pravarapura/Nandivardhana branch. The charter contains four dates, all in year 29. The coda is dated vaiśākha kṛṣṇa 10, while the body, in an unclear context but probably referring to separate donations, mentions day 7 of the 5th fortnight (l28), day 9 of the 7th fortnight (l30), and day 5 of the 7th fortnight (l31), all of the rainy season (as read by Mirashi; some of the numbers are questionable). Both Mirashi 1963: 63 and Shastri 1997: 34-35 see this as evidence that plate 3 (where all the in-text dates are) is a forgery, but I fail to see why a forger would have committed such a blunder. |
| Hand | |
| Letter size | 0.6 |
| Description | southern box-headed |
| Layout | |
| Campus: | |
| Width | 18.5 |
| Height | 9 |
| Description | Inscribed only on the inner face of the first and last plate and on both faces of the other plates. In a good state of preservation. 55 lines in total, 7 on most pages, but 8 on one and only 6 on three (including both faces of the possibly spurious plate 3). Campus size and character size are estimates. The writing on both faces of plate 3 is careless, while the other plates are neat. |
| Decoration | None. |
| Bibliography | |
| References | First reported (without details) in IAR 1957-58: 56 (No. 17). First edited in Mirashi 1963. Discussed in Shastri 1997: 32-35. |
| Add to bibliography | |
| Misc notes | |