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Imprecatory Verses in Copper‑Plate Grants

By Chintaharan Chakravarti

Vol. 6 · No. 4December - 1930pp. 775–778English
Copper Plate Grants

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  • “The identification of imprecatory verses found at the end of copper- plate grants presents a curjous problem,”
  • “It is clear then that there is no clue in the conflicting statements referred to above that may point to the real source of these verses.”
  • “And it is just possible that these imprecatory verses of copper-plates are also of this nature.”

Works cited in this article

  1. Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum, vol. III, Nos. 26, 27, 28, 30, 31
  2. Ep. Ind., vol. IV, p. 259

Discussed in this article

People

Places

  • Thakall

Texts & works

  • Rasgvariesita
  • Damodarpur Copper-plates

Dynasties, sects & groups

  • Western Calukyan dynasty
  • Kadamba

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Vol. 6 · No. 4
1–24Hatthavanagalla Vihara‑Vamsa598–614Manimekhalā, a Divinity of the SeaSylvain Levi614–628On some points relating to the Maurya Administrative SystemSuniti Kumar Chatterji629–638Yuddhakāṅḍa Campu of Rājacūḍāmaṇi DīkṣitaT. R. Chintamani639–644Some Difficult Vedic WordsVishwanath Kashinath Rajwade645–664Naval Warfare in Ancient IndiaPrithwis Chandra Chakravarti665–678Origin of BuddhismManoranjan Roy678–700The Riddle of the Pradyota DynastyJyotirmoy Sen701–717Vidyaranya and MadhavacaryaR. Rama Rao717–727The "Webbed Fingers" of BuddhaJitendra Nath Banerjee727–736The Two BhaskarasBibhutibhusan Datta737–746Cultivation in Ancient IndiaR. Ganguli747–756The Chronology of the Western Kṣatrapas and the AndhrasHari Charan Ghosh757–772Buddhist Studies with Special Reference to TibetanVidhushekhara Bhattacharya773–775Archaeological Progress in KeralaC. S. Srinivasachari775–778Imprecatory Verses in Copper‑Plate GrantsChintaharan ChakravartiCurrent article779–779A Note on Kicakavadha (reply)Chintaharan Chakravarti780–781The Sixth All‑India Oriental Conference782–794ReviewsHariprasad G. Shastri, Niharranjan Roy, Kshitish Chandra Chatterjee795–800Select Contents of Oriental Journals

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