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Kopparam

Village in the old Narasaraopet taluk of the Guntur district, near which the copper-plate grant of the 21st year of the Chalukya king Pulakesin II (probably 631) was found. The grant gives land in Karmarashtra and shows the Chalukyas of Badami granting land in the Guntur country at that time.

Kopparam is known to history for the Kopparam plates of the Chalukya king Pulakesin II, which were found near the village, in the Narasaraopet taluk of the Guntur district. K. V. Lakshmana Rao first published them, and E. Hultzsch re-edited them in 1926.1 The grant gives a field in the village of Irbuli in Karmarashtra. Lakshmana Rao placed two of the boundary roads it names, to Kondaverupur and Virparu, at Kondavidu and Vipparla in the same taluk.12 Robert Sewell dated the grant to 10 October 631.3

Footnotes

  1. E. Hultzsch, “Kopparam Plates of Pulakesin II”, Epigraphia Indica XVIII (1926), p. 257 (archive.org (opens in a new tab)). ↩ ↩2

  2. Hultzsch, “Kopparam Plates” (1926), p. 258 (archive.org (opens in a new tab)). ↩

  3. R. Sewell, postscript to Hultzsch, “Kopparam Plates”, Epigraphia Indica XVIII (1926), p. 261 (archive.org (opens in a new tab)). ↩

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Pulakesin II

c. 609–642 CE

Chalukya king of Badami (609–642), the son of Kirtivarman I. His Aihole inscription of 634–35 says that he humbled the Kalingas and Kosalas, took the fortress of Pishtapura (Pithapuram), ravaged 'the water of Kunala' (taken to be the Kolleru lake) and drove the Pallava king behind the walls of Kanchi. He gave the conquered Vengi country to his younger brother Vishnuvardhana, the founder of the Eastern Chalukyas. His Kopparam plates of about 631 grant land in the Guntur country. He died when the Pallava Narasimhavarman I took Badami, probably in 642.

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Kopparam plates of Pulakesin II

c. 631 CE

A Sanskrit copper-plate grant of the 21st year of the Chalukya king Pulakesin II, probably 631, found near Kopparam in the Narasaraopet taluk of the Guntur district. It gives a field of 800 nivartanas in Karmarashtra to a Brahmana of Mugamur. E. Hultzsch read its 'Prithividuvaraja' as Pulakesin's brother Vishnuvardhana, still a subordinate in that year. Its first editor, K. V. Lakshmana Rao, identified him with another Chalukya prince.

References

Sources (1)
  1. H. Krishna Sastri and Hirananda Sastri (eds.), Epigraphia Indica, Vol. XVIII (1925–26) (opens in a new tab), Archaeological Survey of India, Calcutta, 1926, pp. 257–258, 261. E. Hultzsch, Kopparam Plates of Pulakesin II, with R. Sewell's postscript. [Public domain]

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