Indian Epigraphy c12.6

c12.6

From the standpoint of the recording of grants of land, copper-plate charters can be primarily divided into two classes, viz. (1) those that merely announce that some land or a village was granted by the donor, and (2) those that contain an order of the donor in respect of the grant addressed to certain people. Among the records of the first category, mention may be made of a number of charters issued by the Imperial Gaṅgas of Orissa.⁴ Copper-plate grants written in verse (e.g. many of the charters issued by the Vijayanagara kings¹ and those written mostly in verse² generally fall in the same class. The passage *s-ānunayaṃ prāha bhūpālān* occurring in the versified part of a charter³ from Orissa is one of the few exceptions.