This charter, issued in the 19th year of Pravarasena II’s reign, records the donation of a piece of land in the north west of Matsakadraha village in honour of 19 Brāhmaṇas who are named in the inscription.
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| Inscription ID | IN00184 |
| Title | Masod Charter of Pravarasena II, Year 19 |
| Alternative titles | Masoda Plates of Pravarasena II |
| Parent Object | OB00171 |
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| Author | Dániel Balogh |
| Print edition recorded by | Dániel Balogh |
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| Edition improved by | Dániel Balogh |
| Authority for | Own research. |
| Metadata recorded by | Dániel Balogh |
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| Language | संस्कृतम् |
| Reigning monarch | Pravarasena II |
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| Topic | donation of a piece of land in the north west of Matsakadraha village in honour of 19 Brāhmaṇas who are named in the inscription |
| Date: | |
| Min | 429 |
| Max | 444 |
| Comment | Intrinsic Date: 19 varṣa 2 day 5 (era: regnal, Pravarasena II of Nandivardhana). Basis of dating: approximate reign of Pravarasena II of the Pravarapura/Nandivardhana branch. The year was at first read as 29 in Shastri Gupta 1983a and corrected to 19 in Shastri Gupta 1984. |
| Hand | |
| Letter size | 0.6-0.8 |
| Description | southern box-headed |
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| Campus: | |
| Width | 16.5 |
| Height | 8.3 |
| Description | 48 lines of writing, well preserved, with 5 lines on most pages but 6 on both faces of plate 5 and on 4 recto. Campus and character size estimated. |
| Decoration | None. |
| Bibliography | |
| References | First reported in IAR 1972-73: 40 (No. 13). Edited (with photographs) in Shastri Gupta 1983a. Edition reprinted in Shrimali 1987: 65-69. Date corrected in Shastri Gupta 1984. Deemed a forgery (produced around 500 CE) in Vajpeyi 1989. Discussed in Shastri 1987: 50-51 and Shastri 1997: 90-91. |
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