Hail! From the victorious camp of Nandivardhana, the illustrious king Pr̥thivīśrīmūla, blessed by the feet of his parents; upholder of all laws on class and stage of life, in impeccable manner, through [his] intelligence and discrimination produced by [his] perception of the meanings of the words enjoined in revelation and tradition; who had attained the heavy burden of sovereignty with the purpose of accumulating merit produced by protecting his subjects; for whom the rules of the Old Royal Sage (i.e. Manu) were an unbreakable law; who had won victory more than once on battle grounds that were excessively terrifying, dense with thousands of swords sharpened many times; who, like the moon, brought pleasure to his subjects; who, like the ocean, was of profound nature; who had brought fruit to his bodily and mental activities by daily worship of his preferred deity at the three junctures and by grants of cows, lands, gold and maidens, etc.; devout worshiper of Maheśvara; extremely devout; son of the celebrated great king Śrī Prabhākara, whose fame was the ornament of all quarters of space, whose unsurpassed store of merit had been obtained by the veneration of the feet of gods, brahmins and masters — he commands all residents of his (?) own district, as follows:

‘Be it known to you that, having endorsed (adhiṣṭhāya) the officer in charge of constructions and renovations residing on the Aparaśaila (to oversee the gift), the village named Arṭṭaluvuḷ, being in the middle of the villages called Karakuṇḍa, Kaṁsāryya, Veḷkaṇḍa, Kuriki, Maṇimarddi and Pallaveñca, in the Tāḻupāka district, has been given by me—with complete exemption of taxes—for the purpose of the requisites consisting in robe, alms-food, lodging, as well as medicine to cure the sick, of the community of noble excellent monks of the four quarters and eighteen schools, residing in the great monastery called Śrī-Loka, that had been established by myself on the eastern slope of the eminent mountain at the world-renowned Śrī-Guṇapāśapura. No one may make any trouble in this connection. And there are verses pronounced by Manu on this matter:

The destiny of those who slay their master, a cow, a brahmin, a child, a woman or an ascetic, will be the one of him who seizes [the land/livelihood] that is marked by a (royal) charter.

Hear the fruit of the virtuous man who protects it scrupulously: during numerous thousands of aeons he plays in heaven with the gods.

There is not and will not be any higher gift than the gift of land. There is not and will not be any worse sin than the theft of the same.

The giver of land stays in heaven for sixty thousand years; the one who seizes [land] as well as the one who approves (of the seizing) will reside as many [years] in hell.

He who would seize land given by himself or by someone else becomes a worm in excrement and is cooked together with his ancestors.

By numerous [kings], land has been given; and by many it has been protected. Whoever holds land at a given moment, to him does the fruit then belong.

The charter has been dated in the forty-third year, current, of the victorious and prosperous reign, on the third [day], current, of the waxing fortnight of the month of Phālguṇa.

As long as moon, sun and oceans [last], and as long as this earth [lasts], so long may the command of Śrī Mūlarāja protect this land!

First described and edited by : 74-5, 80-2. Re-edited here from the estampages published by Krishna Sastry and after autopsy of the plates.