Shankarpur/Bhadaura (Madhya Pradesh). Satellite view (Wikimapia).
Shankarpur (Sidhi District, Madhya Pradesh). Copper-plate of Harivarman. (Rani Durgawati Museum, Jabalpur)
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| Object ID | OB00061 |
| Title | Shankarpur Plate of Harivarman |
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| Inscription(s) | IN00067 |
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| Author | |
| Metadata recorded by | Dániel Balogh |
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| Metadata improved by | Dániel Balogh |
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| Description | |
| Material | Metal / copper alloy |
| Object Type | Plate |
| Dimensions: | |
| Width | 24 |
| Height | 11 |
| Depth | |
| Weight | 275 |
| Details | The plate is inscribed on one side only. It has a hole, 0.5 cm in diameter, at the middle of the proper right side, so a seal must have been attached to it with a ring. |
| History | |
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| Date | |
| Place | Shankarpur |
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| Found: | |
| Date | before June 1977 |
| Place | Shankarpur |
| Other modern history | |
| Latest: | |
| Date | 2005 |
| Place | Rani Durgavati Museum |
| Authority | Willis, M. (2005). 'Later Gupta History: Inscriptions, Coins and Historical Ideology', Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 15, no. 2, pp. 131-150. |
| Details | Found by a village boy before June 1977 in Śaṅkarpur, Sidhi District, Madhya Pradesh. |
| Notes | Shankarpur is a relatively common name and there are a number of villages called Shankarpur in Sidhi district. Shri Ram Goyal (1993), see CONCORDANCE, reported that the plate was found in Shankarpur, Gopadbanas Tahsil. However, the Tehsil arrangement has changed, see Madhya Pradesh Census, Sīdhī Jīlā (1981) which breaks the district into three parts: Gopadbanas, Deosar and Singrauli. More recent maps give: Majhauli, Kusmi, Sihawal, Rampurnaikin and Gopadbanas (where Sidhi proper is located). The plate was handed by a young farmworker to the principal of a high school in June 1977, and the find spot given by that source. The tahsil arrangements recorded in 1981 are probably those referred to by our informant in 1977. The villages named Shankarpur north of the River Son do not seem likely, likewise the Shankarpur located about 5 km south of Bajranggarh (बजरंगगढ़) near the Banas River (now in Rampurnaikin). That Shankarpur is a hamlet surrounded by forested hills, an unlikely location for a land-grant unless the plate was taken there subsequently. The Shankarpur located beside village Bhadaura (Tahsil Majhauli) is a modern cluster of houses along a railway line, near to the station of the same name. The area is rich agriculturally with a number of old tanks that suggest habitation and development over the longue durée. This seems the most likely area for the charter in question. |