Language: Prakritised Sanskrit

The location of the original five copper plates and their ring are no longer known, but iron reproductions of the plates were created by a Bidri worker in Bīdar when the plates were brought to him by a villager from the Bechchali tālukā of the Bīdar district. Although the original plates are untraceable, the iron copies give an accurate copy of the charter which records Devasena’s donation of the village of Velpakoṇḍā in ‘favour of one Raddochha, a scholar of the four Vedas’ (Shastri 1997: 108). The inscription was issued from Vatsagulma. According to Shastri (1997: 109), this is the only known complete official grant of Devasena. Shastri (1997: 110) also argues that this plate is important because it may prove that the Vatsagulma branch of the Vākāṭakas spread into Karnataka, as the ending of the named village in the inscription may suggest.

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.