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copper plate

Ind. Ch. 58

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Title

Indian copper charter

Date

400 to 500

Measurement

depth 0.3 centimetres, height 3.9 centimetres, width 17.5 centimetres

Language / script

Sanskrit (lang.) Brahmi (script)

Subject

Legal seal

Description

Scope and content : Charter inscribed in copper with seal, from India, dating from the Gupta period. See J.F. Fleet, 'Sanskrit and Old-Canerese Inscriptions', in The Indian Antiquary, vol. vi, pp. 23-4. Journal of the Bombat Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, vol. ix, n. xxvii. p. 229. Epigraphia Indica, vol. vii, App. no. 602 (p. 105).

Institution

British Library

Provenance

Not known

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