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Title Pulōmbūru copper plates of Mādhavavarman
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Material Metal / copper
Object Type Plate
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Width 16.5
Height 6.4
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Details Four copper plates with holes for a securing ring and seal. The securing seal and ring were not found at the time of the charter's discovery.
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Date 1913
Place Polamura
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Place Government Museum, Chennai
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Details Discovered in the village of Polamura in 1913. Subba Rao reported in 1931 that the original plates had been sold to the authorities of the Madras Museum (now the Government Museum, Chennai), but the plates do not appear in the museum records. See Subba Rao, R. (1931). ‘The Pulomburu plates of Vishnukundin Madhavavarma’, Journal of the Andhra Historical Research Society, 6, pt. 1 (July 1931), pp. 17-24.
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