Indian Epigraphy c11.t4.36

c11.t4.36

In this connection, it has also to be noticed that sometimes old or rejected copper plates were utilised for the preparation of fresh charters. Often they were melted to make a sheet of copper and smaller sheets were cut out of it for particular charters. In such cases, the old writing is completely lost even though sometimes traces of hammering are noticeable on the plates. But, in some cases, the old writing was merely beaten in by hammering and the text of the new document was written on the erasure. In such records, traces of the old writing are often visible under the later writing. We have a number of palimpsests of this kind.¹ In certain cases, only a part of the old writing is beaten in by hammering or erased by chiselling.²