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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>The '''Katni copper-plate of Jayanātha''' is an epigraphic record documenting the donation of the village of Kalabhikuṇḍaka in the time of the [[Uccakalpa]] ruler ''mahārāja'' Jayanātha (''circa'' 493-502 CE). It is dated year 182 in the [[Gupta]] era (''circa'' 502 CE).<br />
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==Location==<br />
[[Katni]] is a town in [[Jabalpur District]], [[Madhya Pradesh]], India. The plates, however, are not from Katni itself, but are reported to have been recovered at Uchahara, the ancient Uccakalpa, in [[Satna district]]. The inscription is currently located in the museum at [[Jabalpur]].<br />
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==Publication==<br />
The inscription was first published by Usha Jain in 1972-73.<ref>Usha Jain, "Katni Plates of Jayanatha, Year 182," ''[[Epigraphia Indica]]'' 40 (1972-73), pp. 95–100.</ref> The record is listed also in Madan Mohan Upadhyay, ''Inscriptions of Mahakoshal'', no. 2: 10.<ref>Madan Mohan Upadhyay, ''Inscriptions of Mahakoshal : Resource for the History of Central India'' (Delhi, 2005). {{ISBN|81-7646496-1}}</ref><br />
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==Description and contents==<br />
The inscription is in the [[Sanskrit]] language. The inscription records how ''mahārāja'' Jayanātha divided a village named Kalabhikuṇḍaka into a sixty shares and donated these to twenty-five different people.<br />
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==Historical significance==<br />
The donees are individually named as is their caste affiliation: ''brāhmaṇa'', ''kṣatriya'', ''vaiśya'' or ''śūdra''. This is one of the first inscriptions in India to specifically list the four ''[[Varna (Hinduism)|varṇa]]''-s. The implications of this are explored by Michael Willis in his book ''The Archaeology of Hindu Ritual''.<ref>[[Michael D. Willis]], ''[[The Archaeology of Hindu Ritual]]'' (Cambridge, 2009), p. 378. Partly available online: http://www.cambridge.org/gb/knowledge/isbn/item2427416/?site_locale=en_GB</ref><br />
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==Metrics==<br />
The metrics are not recorded in the publications consulted.<br />
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==Text==<br />
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Katni copper-plate charter..jpg | first plate<br />
Copper-plate charter of maharaja Jayanatha, the Uchchakalpa ruler dated circa 502.jpg | second plate<br />
Katni copper-plate charter of Jayanātha, third plate..jpg | third plate<br />
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==See also==<br />
*[[Indian inscriptions]]<br />
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==References==<br />
{{Reflist|2}}<br />
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==External links==<br />
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*[http://indepigr.narod.ru/latergupta/index.htm Other Uccakalpa inscriptions online]<br />
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