Indian Epigraphy c9.t10.1

c9.t10.1

There are references in Buddhist literature to family records of rich merchants, royal orders and religious regulations being engraved on golden plates¹ while Burnell refers to the practice of engraving royal letters and land grants on such plates.² We have some gold records including a plate bearing a votive inscription in Kharoṣṭhī discovered in the ruins of Taxila.³ But gold is too precious a metal to be generally used for such purposes.