Indian Epigraphy c11.t4.34

c11.t4.34

We know that, while describing the boundless liberality of a king, a poet sometimes speaks of the dearth of copper that resulted from the issue of innumerable copper-plate grants by the former.² Considering the great bulk of the copper charters of the Coḷa monarchs, we have to admit that the statement, hyperbolic though it is, may not, at least in some cases, be entirely without foundation.