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Object ID OB00174
Title Yavatmal Final Plate of Pravarasena II
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Inscription(s) IN00187
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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 inscribed only on the recto, the last of a set. It probably has no raised rims (this is not reported explicitly). The hole for the binding ring is on the left-hand side, vertically at the centre, and horizontally at an estimated 5.2 centimetres from the edge.
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Place Yavatmāl
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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 OB00173.