This set of five copper plates were discovered during archaeological excavations undertaken at Māṇḍhaḷ by the Department of Ancient Indian History, Culture and Archaeology, Nagpur University. These plates were discovered with two other Vākāṭaka copper plate charters (IN00183 and IN00189). Each charter was complete with ring and seal attached. This charter, inscribed on four plates, records the donation of the village Govasāhikā to four Brāhmaṇas, including two – Maheśvarasvāmin and Brahmasvāmin – who are also mentioned in the Māṇḍhaḷ copper plate charter of Pṛithivīṣeṇa II, year 2 (IN00189). Shastri (1997: 99-103) argues that the three plates found at this site record donations by two Vākāṭaka kings to two generations of the same family.
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| Inscription ID | IN00190 |
| Title | Mandhal Charter of Prthivisena II, Year 10 |
| Alternative titles | Mandhal Plates of Prithivishena II / Govasahika Grant |
| Parent Object | OB00177 |
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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 |
| Commissioner | |
| Topic | donation of the village Govasāhikā to four Brāhmaṇas |
| Date: | |
| Min | 480 |
| Max | 490 |
| Comment | Intrinsic Date: 10 grīṣma pakṣa 1, day 1 (era: regnal, Pṛthivīṣeṇa II). Basis of dating: approximate reign of Pṛthivīṣeṇa II. |
| Hand | |
| Letter size | 0.7 |
| Description | southern box-headed |
| Layout | |
| Campus: | |
| Width | 18 |
| Height | 9 |
| Description | 46 lines of text, with 7 on most pages, but 6 on 4 recto and 5 on 4 verso. Campus and character size are estimates. |
| Decoration | None. |
| Bibliography | |
| References | First reported in IAR 1975-76: 63 (No. 30) and ARIE 1976-77: 25 (No. A7); reported with more details in IAR 1976-77: 60-61 (No. 23). Edited in Shastri 1975-76b: 169-180 and Shrimali 1987: 75-78 (probably a reprint of Shastri in Vidarbha Samshodhak Mandal Annual 1977, not Shastri 1975-76b). Discussed in Shastri 1987: 58-62 and Shastri 1997: 99-103. |
| 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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