Penukonda Plates of Mādhava II (495 AD)

Penukonda Plates of Mādhava II (495 AD) EpiDoc Encoding Amandine Wattelier-Bricout intellectual authorship of edition Amandine Wattelier-Bricout DHARMA Aubervilliers DHARMA_INSEI14_24

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yo 'sya harttā sa pañcamahāpātaka-samyukto bhavati. Api cātra manu-gītāḥ ślokāḥ

bahubhir vvasudhā bhuktā rājabhiḥ sagarādibhiḥ yasya yasya yadā bhūmis tasya tasya tadā phalam svan dātuṁ sumahac chakyan duṣḥkham anyārttha–pālanam dānaṁ vā pālanaṁ veti danāc chreyo 'nupālanam sva-dattām para-dattāṁ vā yo hareta vasundharāM ṣaṣṭi-varṣa-sahasrāṇi ghore tamasi varttate

Iti suvarṇṇakārārryaputreṇa Apāpena likhiteyan tāmra-paṭṭikā

Dynasty of Gaṅga kings of Mysore ; three plates with four faces engraved (5 lines per face); grant of 65 paddy fields to a Brahmin by the Gaṅga king Mādhava, Fleet's opinion on the date: 475 AD

Each stanza starts at the beginning of a line and the w are all inscribed on the third plate