Indian Epigraphy c11.t6.18

c11.t6.18

As in the case of invocation, so too in mentioning the place of issue, we have in later records sometimes an elaborate description of the city or camp instead of a mere mention of its name. Thus, while the Sasanakota plates³ of the early Western Gaṅga king Mādhavavarman I omit this item altogether, the Prince of Wales Museum plates⁴ of Gurjara Dadda III have merely : ‘from the prosperous [city of] Bharukaccha’ without any embellishment and the Chittagong plate⁵ of Kāntideva has only: ‘from the glorious and victorious campresidence at the city of Vardhamāna.’ Similarly, Mādhavavarman’s Ipur plates⁶ have : ‘from the victorious camp [pitched] at Kuḍavāḍa’, after the donor’s name and not after the *maṅgala* or invocation. An elaborate mention of the place of issue is illustrated by records like the Sonepur plates of the Somavaṁśī king Mahābhavagupta I Janamejaya of South Kosala, in which the invocation is followed by a long prose passage in nine lines of writing, describing the city of Ārāma.¹