Sohgaura copper plate inscription

Sohgaura copper plate inscription
Sohgaura copper plate inscription
	The Sohgaura copper plate.
Material	Copper plate
Writing	Brahmi script
Created	3rd century BCE
Period/culture	3rd Century BCE
Discovered	26°34′N 83°29′E / 26.57°N 83.48°ECoordinates: 26°34′N 83°29′E / 26.57°N 83.48°E
Place	India
Present location	Sohgaura
	Sohgaura

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The Sohgaura copper plate inscription is an Indian copper plate inscription written in Prakrit in the Brahmi script. It was discovered in Sohgaura, a village on the banks of the Rapti River, about 20 km south-east of Gorakhpur, in the Gorakhpur District, Uttar Pradesh, India.^[1]

The plate, consisting of a line of symbolic drawings and four lines of text, is the result of a molding.^[2] The inscription is sometimes presented as pre-Ashokan, even pre-Mauryan, but the writing of the plate, especially the configuration of akshara would rather suggest a date after Ashoka.^[2] Archaeologist Raymond Allchin believes it to be from Ashoka's period, and considers it to be a precursor of the later copper-plate inscriptions.^[3]

The text of the plate has been translated as follows. Its mentions the establishment of two grain depots (Kosthagara) to fight against famine.^[4]

Sāvatiyānam Mahāma(ttā)nam sāsane Mānavāsītika-
ḍasilimate Ussagāme va ete duve koṭṭhāgālāni
tina-yavāni maṃthulloca-chammā-dāma-bhālakān(i)va
laṃ kayiyati atiyāyikāya no gahi(ta)vvāya^[5]
At the junction called Manawasi,
these two storehouses are prepared,
for the sheltering of loads of commodities,
of Tiyavani, Mathura and Chanchu.
— Translated by Fleet^[2]

This is the oldest Indian copper plate inscription known.^[3]^[4]

References[edit]

↑ THE SOHGAURA COPPER-PLATE REGISTRATION BM Barua Annals of the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute Vol. 11, No. 1 (1930), pp. 32-48 [1]
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 Sircar 1942 Select Inscriptions Vol 1 OCR p.85
↑ ^3.0 ^3.1 F. R. Allchin (1995). The Archaeology of Early Historic South Asia: The Emergence of Cities and States. Cambridge University Press. p. 212. ISBN 978-0-521-37695-2.
↑ ^4.0 ^4.1 2000+ MCQs with Explanatory Notes For HISTORY by Disha Experts p.63
↑ Barua, B. M. (1930). "THE SOHGAURA COPPER-PLATE INSCRIPTION". Annals of the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute. 11 (1): 48. JSTOR 41688160.

[1] THE SOHGAURA COPPER-PLATE REGISTRATION BM Barua Annals of the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute Vol. 11, No. 1 (1930), pp. 32-48 [1]

[Sircar-2] 2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 Sircar 1942 Select Inscriptions Vol 1 OCR p.85

[Allchin-3] 3.0 ^3.1 F. R. Allchin (1995). The Archaeology of Early Historic South Asia: The Emergence of Cities and States. Cambridge University Press. p. 212. ISBN 978-0-521-37695-2.

[MCQ-4] 4.0 ^4.1 2000+ MCQs with Explanatory Notes For HISTORY by Disha Experts p.63

[5] Barua, B. M. (1930). "THE SOHGAURA COPPER-PLATE INSCRIPTION". Annals of the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute. 11 (1): 48. JSTOR 41688160.

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