Object type: Plate

This plate, which is unfinished, was found in the village of Mohallā in the Durg district of Chhattīsgaḍh. The details of the charter are not recorded in the inscription as it is not finished. According to Shastri, the plate is possibly dated to the reign of Pṛithivīṣeṇa I.

This charter has five copper plates and records the donation of 2000 nivartanas of land by royal measure in the village of Dhuvavāṭaka (Dhruvavāṭaka) to a number of Brāhmaṇas. An additional 26 nivartanas in two other villages is recorded in the third plate as being specifically donated to the Brāhmaṇa Somārya. Both Mirashi 1963: 64 and Shastri 1997: 34-35 argue that this third plate is actually a forgery, inserted into the charter at a later date to benefit Somārya. The first part of the donation (that of the 2000 nivartanas) was issued in exchange for the earlier donation by Pṛthivīṣeṇa I of the village of Vijayavallī-vāṭaka. The charter was issued in the 29th year of Pravarasena II reign and was issued from the temple of Pravareśvara.

The charter was issued by Pravarasena II in the 27th year of his reign and is, according to Shastri 1963: 31, a unique charter in the Vākāṭaka examples because it provides for a free feeding house, attached to a temple as opposed to an individual donation of a land grant. The donation was made at the request of Nārāyaṇarāja.

The inscription records the donation of four hundred nivartanas by royal measure in the village of Velusuka and was issued in the 25th year of Pravarasena II reign although the grant was made in the 20th year. The donation was made to Brāhmaṇa Rudrarya.

The charter records the donation of 25 bhūmis (nivartanas) in the village of Darbbhamalaka to Yakshārya and 60 bhūmis of land in the village of Karmakāra-grama to Kaliśarman. The land was donated in the 23rd year of Pravarasena II reign.