Indian Epigraphy c11.t8.51

c11.t8.51

With reference to the representation of the donor’s signature on the copper-plate grants, it may be pointed out that, in most cases, the signature on the original record later engraved on plates was omitted, while, in certain medieval documents, it is not actually the donor’s name that was engraved. The copper-plate grants of the Vijayanagara kings, which are generally written in Nandināgarī, have the name Virūpākṣa written in bold Kannaḍa characters at the end, Virūpākṣa probably being the family deity of the kings in question.⁶