Indian Palaeography from about B.C. 350 to about A.D. 1300 c11.s2.t2.1

c11.s2.t2.1

The way in which private individuals kept their copper-plate grants, seems to have been very peculiar. In many places, *e. g.*, in the ruins of Valabhī, near the modern Valā, they have been found immured in the walls or even in the foundations of the houses of the owners. In many other cases [94] the grants have turned up in those fields to the donation of which they refer, often hidden in small caches constructed of bricks.