Chikkulla plates of Vikramendravarman EpiDoc Encoding Amandine Wattelier-Bricout intellectual authorship of edition Amandine Wattelier-Bricout DHARMA Aubervilliers DHARMA_INSEI4_25

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kaścid enam pālāyati so rudra-loke devagaṇā koṭī-sśata-sahasreṇa svarggina sukha modati

vijayarājya-saṁvassaraṁbuḷ 10 māsa-pakkaṁ 8 gihmā 5

bahubhir vvasudhā dattā bahubhiś cānupalitā yasya yasya yadā bhūmis tasya tasya tadā phalam sva-dattāṁ para-dattāṁ vā yo haretia vasundharām ṣaṣṭi-varṣa-sahasrāṇi narake pacyate dhruvam gāvo bhūmi tathā bhāryyā Akramya hara mā nayā śrāvayanti hi rājānāṁ brahma-hatyā ca lipyati

Whoever obeys it enjoys hapiness of the inhabitants of heaven with the hundred-thousand billions hosts in Rudra's world.

In the year 10 of the reign of victory, on the 5th (day) of the 8th fornight of summer. [Here follow three benedictive and imprecatory verses.]

Five copper-plates strung by a copper ring found during a tank exacavation in Chikkulla of the Tuni division of the Godavari district; language: incorrect sanskrit mixed with prakrit words (it seems that the writer's mother-tongue was Telugu); content : gif of villages by Vikramendravarman II to the temple named Somagirīśvaranātha of Tryambaka; "this record is not later than the 8th century A.D."; probably linked to the Vākāṭaka family