Balaghat Charter Fragment of Pravarasena II

Object Reference

Balaghat Single Plate of Pravarasena II

Object URI

OB00159

Inscription URI

IN00172

Basic Metadata

Extent

18.8 cm width x 10.5 cm height

Decoration

None.

Language

Sanskrit

Script

southern box-headed

Script size

0.8

Date (min)

410

Date (max)

460

Date comments

Basis of dating: approximate reign of Pravarasena II of the Pravarapura/Nandivardhana branch.

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A single plate (probably the third of an original set of four or five), inscribed on both faces. All other components of the set are lost. The shorter edges bulge, so the longer dimension is 19 cm in the centre, but only 18.4 cm at the edges. The plate has no rims. The hole (0.9 cm in diameter) for the connecting ring is on the left-hand side, vertically at the centre, and perhaps about 2.5 cm from the edge (Mirashi reports the hole as being 1" from the centre, which is clearly not the case).
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Inscribed on both sides, with 5 lines per page. In a good state of preservation. Campus size and character size are estimates. 
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Found "somewhere in the Central Provinces" according to #Altekar_1928 (@no page reference), and in Jabalpur according to #Jayaswal_1933:74. #Mirashi_1963:69 says Hiralal believed that this plate belonged to a set discovered in Mānsar near Rāmṭek, divided among the miners who found them and lost to scholarship. This was apparently Hiralal's personal communication, as Mirashi only cites #Hiralal_1916:5 for this, which is a description of the Mānsar plate (%OB00160). #Mirashi_1936:49-50 and #Mirashi_1963:69-70 convincingly argues against this hypothesis and reports that his inquiries indicate that the plate was discovered around 1919 while digging a house foundation in Balāghāṭ (21.812799,80.18457), near where he also identifies several localities mentioned in the plate. Eventually it was deposited in Paṭnā museum (which Mirashi consistently spells Pāṭnā, but in all probability this is the capital of Bihar, not a different town).
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First reported and edited (without facsimile) in #Altekar_1928. Discussed, with identification of localities, in #Mirashi_1936:48-50. Re-edited in #Mirashi_1963.

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Bhandarkar_1929

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Mirashi_1963

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