Ancient Vidarbha showing find-spots of Vākāṭaka inscriptions. (Zenodo).
Chandrabhāgā river at Cammak village (Amravati district, Maharashtra).
Cāmak copper-plate charter and seal with note by J. F. Fleet
| Metadata | |
|---|---|
| Object ID | OB00149 |
| Title | Cammak Plates of Pravarasena II |
| Subtitle | |
| Inscription(s) | IN00162 |
| Child Object | |
| Parent Object | |
| Related Objects | OB00149a OB00149b OB00149c OB00149d OB00149e OB00149f OB00149g OB00149h OB00149i |
| Responsibility | |
| 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 | 18.7-19 |
| Height | 8.6-8.9 |
| Depth | |
| Weight | 3531 |
| Details | A set of seven plates, the first and last inscribed only on the inner sides; the others on both faces. Their surface is flat, without raised rims. The size of the plates differs slightly, but no individual figures are reported. The plates have a hole at the centre of one of the longer sides (top of recto and bottom of verso pages), through which they are connected by a ring. The seal is not soldered but hung separately on the ring. |
| History | |
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| Found: | |
| Date | around 1868 |
| Place | Chammak |
| Other modern history | |
| Latest: | |
| Date | 1975 |
| Place | British Library |
| Authority | Gaur, Albertine. (1975). Indian Charters on Copper Plates in the Department of Oriental Manuscripts and Printed Books. London: British Museum Publications, p. 10. |
| Details | Discovered around 1868 during the ploughing of a field at the village of Chammak or Chamak (21.206676, 77.471909, now a cluster of three villages), about 6.5 km southwest of Achalpur (formerly Ellichpur or Illychpur) in the Amravati District of Maharashtra. Now in the British Library, Oriental Manuscript shelfmark: Ind. Ch. 16. |
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