The South Asia Inscriptions Database

Khoh Charter 2 of Hastin, year 163

Dimensions estimated from the size of the first two plates. 13 lines each on the first and second plates, 4 more on the third. Well preserved except for a small piece broken away near the left side of the top edge of the third plate.

Object URI
OB00071
Inscription URI
IN00078

Basic Metadata

Extent
18 cm width x 13 cm height
Decoration
None.
Language
Sanskrit
Script
northern class
Script size
0.5-0.6
Reigning Monarch
Hastin
Date (min)
481
Date (max)
482
Date comments
Intrinsic Date: 163 caitra śukla 2, mahāśvayuja saṃvatsara (era: Gupta). Basis of dating: intrinsic.
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First mentioned in #Thomas_1850:12n4. Noticed (by Thomas), with translation (combined with %IN00077) by H. H. Wilson, in #Prinsep_1858:251-252. First edited in #Hall_1861a. Hall's translation reprinted in #ASIR_09:11-12 (No. 2), with eye copy of the passage containing the date (plate IV/2). Re-edited in #Fleet_1888. Summarised in #Trivedi_2001:43 (No. 2).
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<p>A set of three plates, each inscribed on one face only. The plates are thin and deeply engraved, hence their backs were not suitable for writing on, as all details show through clearly. The third plate is much smaller than the first two, "evidently added as an afterthought, when it was found that the inscription could not be completed" (Fleet_1888:101). Each plate is perforated about the middle of the upper side and originally connected by a ring through the hole. The three plates together (without ring and seal) weigh about 500 grams. The inscribed faces are presumably 1verso, 2recto and 3recto, in which case the top of each page faced inward when the plates were opened like a book (and page 3 faced a blank page).</p>
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<p>Probably discovered shortly before 1848, perhaps by Colonel Sykes, in a valley near the village of Khoh (Google Map 24.365845, 80.719145), near the town of Uchaharā (Unchehara in Google Maps), presently Madhya Pradesh. However, #Fleet_1888:100, apparently relying on #Cunningham_1897:7, says the plates were discovered about 1852 by a Colonel Ellis. Apparently the plates later came to the hands of Major Kittoe, who presented them to F-E. Hall sometime before 1861, who gave them to the Benares College. At a later time (before 1888) they were transferred from Benares to the Allahabad Museum and then on to the Provincial Museum of Lucknow. The connecting ring and the attached seal were lost during transfer, but the plates themselves reached their destination.</p>
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<p>Probably discovered shortly before 1848, perhaps by Colonel Sykes, in a valley near the village of Khoh (Google Map 24.365845, 80.719145), near the town of Uchaharā (Unchehara in Google Maps), presently Madhya Pradesh. However, #Fleet_1888:100, apparently relying on #Cunningham_1897:7, says the plates were discovered about 1852 by a Colonel Ellis. Apparently the plates later came to the hands of Major Kittoe, who presented them to F-E. Hall sometime before 1861, who gave them to the Benares College. At a later time (before 1888) they were transferred from Benares to the Allahabad Museum and then on to the Provincial Museum of Lucknow. The connecting ring and the attached seal were lost during transfer, but the plates themselves reached their destination.</p>
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<p>A set of three plates, each inscribed on one face only. The plates are thin and deeply engraved, hence their backs were not suitable for writing on, as all details show through clearly. The third plate is much smaller than the first two, "evidently added as an afterthought, when it was found that the inscription could not be completed" (Fleet_1888:101). Each plate is perforated about the middle of the upper side and originally connected by a ring through the hole. The three plates together (without ring and seal) weigh about 500 grams. The inscribed faces are presumably 1verso, 2recto and 3recto, in which case the top of each page faced inward when the plates were opened like a book (and page 3 faced a blank page).</p>
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<lb n="seal.1" />śrī-mahārāja-hastinaḥ
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<lb break="no" n="16" />kāgrahāraḥ sodraṅgaḥ soparikaraḥ a-cāṭa-bhaṭa-prāveśyo tisṛṣṭa
<lb break="no" n="17" />s<supplied reason="omitted">|</supplied>
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<p>tasyāghāṭāḥ<supplied reason="omitted">|</supplied> pūrvveṇa korppara-garttā| uttareṇānimuktaka-koṇakaḥ|
<lb n="18" />vaṅgara-grāmakasya dakṣiṇa-p<unclear>ā</unclear>rśve valaka-maddhyema vṛkaḥ amvrāta-saṃtāra
<lb break="no" n="19" />kaḥ| paścimena nāgasarī| dakṣiṇena balavarmma-paricchedaḥ<supplied reason="omitted">|</supplied>
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<p>tad asma
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<l>bahubhir vvasudhā bhuktā</l><l>rājabhiḥ sagarādibhiḥ
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