The charter consists of four plates, which were found in an earthen vessel during excavations, along with two other Vākāṭaka period copper plate inscriptions. The charter was issued in the second year of Pṛithivīṣeṇa II’s reign and was found complete with ring and seal, providing the earliest known complete example of a copper plate charter from the reign of Pṛithivīṣeṇa II. The charter records the donation of the village Kurubhajjaka by its chief to three brothers, Maheśvarasvāmin, Agnisvāmin and Brahmasvāmin, sons of Māṭrisvāmin. Two of these brothers are also the benefactors of the Māṇḍhaḷ copper plate of Pṛithivīṣeṇa II, year 10 (IN00190) and Māṭrisvāmin was the donee of the Māṇḍhaḷ copper plate of Pravarasena II, year 17 (IN00183).
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| Inscription ID | IN00189 |
| Title | Mandhal Charter of Prthivisena II, Year 2 |
| Alternative titles | Mandhal Plates of Prithivishena II / Kuruvajjaka Grant |
| Parent Object | OB00176 |
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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 | Pṛthivīṣeṇa II |
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| Topic | donation of the village Kurubhajjaka by its chief to three brothers, Maheśvarasvāmin, Agnisvāmin and Brahmasvāmin, sons of Māṭrisvāmin |
| Date: | |
| Min | 472 |
| Max | 482 |
| Comment | Intrinsic Date: 2 grīṣma pakṣa 7, day 12 (era: regnal, Pṛthivīṣeṇa II). Basis of dating: approximate reign of Pṛthivīṣeṇa II. |
| Hand | |
| Letter size | 0.8 |
| Description | southern box-headed |
| Layout | |
| Campus: | |
| Width | 18 |
| Height | 9 |
| Description | 41 lines of text, with 6 lines on most pages but only 5 on the last. In good condition. Campus and character size are estimates. |
| Decoration | None. |
| Bibliography | |
| References | First reported in IAR 1975-76: 63 (No. 30) and ARIE 1976-77: 24 (No. A6); reported with more details in IAR 1976-77: 60 (No. 23). Edited in Shastri 1975-76b: 159-169 and Shrimali 1987: 71-74 (probably a reprint of Shastri in Vidarbha Samshodhak Mandal Annual 1977, not Shastri 1975-76b). Discussed in Shastri 1987: 56-58 and Shastri 1997: 97-99. |
| Add to bibliography | Shastri, A. M. (1977). Mandhal Utkhanana. In: Vidarbha Samshodhak Mandal Annual (Vidarbha saṃśōdhana maṇḍala vārṣika), pp. 142-174. |
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