Ancient Vidarbha showing find-spots of Vākāṭaka inscriptions. (Zenodo).
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| Object ID | OB00173 |
| Title | Yavatmal Loose Plate, probably of Pravarasena II |
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| Inscription(s) | IN00186 |
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| Related Objects | OB00174 |
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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 | 19.5 |
| Height | 9.5 |
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| Details | A single plate, probably the second of a set of four or five, inscribed on both sides. It probably has no raised rims (this is not reported explicitly). The hole for the binding ring is on the left-hand side of each page, vertically near the centre and horizontally at an estimated 3.8 cm from the edge. |
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| Date | |
| Place | Yavatmāl |
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| Latest: | |
| Date | 1983 |
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| Authority | Shastri, Ajay Mitra, and Gupta, Chandrashekhar. (1983). Yawatmal Plates of Pravarasena II, Year 26, Vishveshvaranand Indological Journal, 21, pp. 78-84. |
| Details | Found in Yavatmāl (20.388239, 78.127731), Yavatmāl district, Maharashtra along with OB00174. The plates were "rescued ... from a copper-smith ... just when they were about to go to the melting pot" (Shastri Gupta 1983b: 78), so presumably they were originally found somewhere in the vicinity of Yavatmāl by locals. Shastri and Gupta (1983b: 78) seem to imply that the plates were found as a full set including the ring and seal, but this is uncertain. They also seem to take it for granted that the two extant plates belong to the same set, but this is also uncertain. The two plates are reported as being the same size, but on their facsimiles the binding hole seems to be positioned quite differently. For the sake of caution I record them as independent objects. Both plates recorded by Shastri and Gupta (1983b) as being with Prashant P. Kulkarni of the Coin Society of Nagpur. |
| Notes | Found with and probably belonging to the same set as OB00174. |