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The Indian Analyst
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South Indian Inscriptions |
MISCELLANEOUS DHURETI PLATES OF TRAILOKYAMALLA: YEAR 963
TEXT1 The year 958, (the month) first Āshādha, the bright (fortnight), the (lunar) day 3. From the Sūtradhāra Jagadē[va] 30 drammas have been taken. Similarly (from…) 10 drammas have been taken; (and) from Puja 10 drammas have been taken. Similarly from Vandahāli to drammas have been taken. From Raukā 18. drammas have been taken. . . . . No.72; PLATE LX THESE plates were brought to notice in 1936 by Dr. N.P. Chakravarti, Government Epigraphist for India. He first published a brief notice of their contents in his report for the year 1935-369 and subsequently edited them with a lithograph in the Epigraphia Indica, Vol. XXV, pp. I ff. They are edited here from an excellent ink-impression kindly supplied by him. They are two copper-plates measuring 1' 3.2'' broad and 10½'' high. They were discovered in 1926 in the village of Dhurēti,10 about 6 miles south-east of Rewa by a cultivator while ploughing his field. They have raised rims. When discovered they were apparently held together by a ring, but it had already been cut when Dr. Chakravarti examined the charter. This ring has a seal measuring 6¾''x4½''attached to it, bearing in relief the figure of Lakshmī with an elephant on either side pouring water over her head, and the legend Srīmat-Trailōkyamalla in one line below it. The weight of the plates together with the seal is 419 tolas. The record consists of 22 lines, of which eleven are inscribed on the inner side of each plate. The writing is in a state of perfect preservation throughout. The average size of the letter is .5''.
The characters are of the Nagari alphabet. Attention may be drawn to the closely
similar forms of the initial e and pa, t and bh, and ch and v. The prishtha-matras are used
1From inked estampages.
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