Ancient Vidarbha showing find-spots of Vākāṭaka inscriptions. (Zenodo).
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| Object ID | OB00171 |
| Title | Masod Plates of Pravarasena II, Year 19 |
| Subtitle | |
| Inscription(s) | IN00184 |
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| Parent Object | |
| Related Objects | OB00171a OB00171b OB00171c OB00171d OB00171e |
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| 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 | 17.2 |
| Height | 8.5 |
| Depth | |
| Weight | 1500 |
| Details | A set of five plates, the first inscribed only on the inner side; the others (including the last) on both faces. Their surface is flat, without raised rims. The plates are 3 millimetres thick and, together, weigh 1500 grams. The hole (diameter 1.2 cm) for the connecting ring is on the left-hand side, vertically at the centre, and horizontally about 4 centimetres from the edge. The seal was never found; it is not clear from reports whether the connecting ring was attached to the plates and whether it is still extant. |
| History | |
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| Found: | |
| Date | probably around 1940 |
| Place | Māsod |
| Other modern history | Acquired by Nagpur Central Museum in 1976. |
| Latest: | |
| Date | 1997 |
| Place | Central Museum, Nagpur |
| Authority | Shastri, Ajay Mitra. (1997). Vākāṭakas – Sources and History. New Delhi: Aryan Books International. |
| Details | Discovered, probably around 1940 ("some forty years earlier" according to Shastri Gupta 1983a), while ploughing a field near Māsod (21.077072, 78.62162) near Koṇḍhāḷī in Katol Taluka, Nagpur District, Maharashtra. Acquired by the Nagpur Central Museum in 1976, where they were cleaned for study. |
| Notes | Geolysis records the village as being located here (http://www.geolysis.com/plgmap.php?p=536010082&k=233344664), assuming that the village marker overlay had slipped upwards (typically the case). Another website (http://www.onefivenine.com/india/villages/Nagpur/Katol/Masod) also lists this as Māsod village and fits with the description of the village being ‘under the Mauja Kamathi and Kondhali Police stations in the Katol taluka of the Nagpur District’ as cited by Shastri 1997: 90. |