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| Title | Dhārikāṭūra copper plate of Achaṇḍavarman |
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| Inscription(s) | EIAD162 |
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| Description | |
| Material | Metal / copper |
| Object Type | Plate |
| Dimensions: | |
| Width | 19.4 |
| Height | 5.5 |
| Depth | 0.2 |
| Weight | ~700 |
| Details | Four copper plates secured with a ring and a seal, the latter bearing an obliterated image. Furnished with original plate numbering inscribed vertically in the left margin. |
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| Date | before June 1954 |
| Place | Unknown |
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| Date | 2017 |
| Place | Multipurpose Cultural Complex, Madhapur, Hyderabad |
| Authority | Francis, Emmanuel, and Griffiths, Arlo. (2017). EIAD 162. Dhārikāṭūra Grant ― reign of Nandivarman I (?), year 35. Early Inscriptions of Āndhradeśa. [Online.] Available at: http://hisoma.huma-num.fr/exist/apps/EIAD/works/EIAD0162.xml?&odd=teipublisher.odd [accessed 27 August 2019]. |
| Details | The plates were discovered under unknown circumstances and at an unknown location at a date before June 1954. Sircar says “In June 1954, a set of copper plates was received for examination in the Office of the Government Epigraphist for India from Shri M. Somasekhara Sarma of the Telugu Encyclopaedia Office, University Buildings, Madras” (Sircar 1965-66: 1 ). Identified by EIAD researchers in January 2017 at the Multipurpose Cultural Complex, Madhapur, Hyderabad, acc. no. P-6410. |
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