{"id":10260,"date":"2011-07-04T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-04T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2011\/07\/04\/deciphering-chola-era-inscriptions\/"},"modified":"2011-07-04T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-04T12:00:00","slug":"deciphering-chola-era-inscriptions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2011\/07\/04\/deciphering-chola-era-inscriptions\/","title":{"rendered":"Deciphering Chola-Era Inscriptions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/chennai\/Deciphering-Chola-era-inscriptions\/articleshow\/8842642.cms\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>CHENNAI, INDIA, June 14, 2011 (Times of India): Epigraphists have recently unearthed a stack of engraved copper plates which show that emperor Rajadhiraja Chola I ensured that his successor and younger brother Rajadhiraja Chola II made donations he had pledged. &#8220;The famous king was a man who kept his word,&#8221; said R. Sivanandan, chief epigraphist, state archaeological department, who was part of the team that deciphered the engravings on 85 copper plates. &#8220;He died in 1054CE in a battle against the Western Chalukas. His brother Rajadhiraja Chola II, won the war and not only made the donations in 1061 CE but also added 40 more villages,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n<p>The 85 copper plates were unearthed in May 2010 by workers of the Hindu Religious &#038; Charitable Endowments department at Kazhukani Muttam in Thiruenthalur village in Nagapattinam, 190 miles south of Chennai. The workers were digging a 20-ft deep trench in front of the 900-year-old Kailashnatha temple. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is a rare find. Such a large number of copper plates have not been found at a single location anywhere else in the country. We have decoded entire inscriptions and will publish them shortly,&#8221; said Sivanandan. The plates had inscriptions in Sanskrit and Tamil. <\/p>\n<p>The workers also discovered a dozen bronze statues, including figurines of Lord Ganesha and Tamil scholars and saints like Appar, Manickavasagar, Thirugnanasamandar and Karaikal Ammaiyar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source CHENNAI, INDIA, June 14, 2011 (Times of India): Epigraphists have recently unearthed a stack of engraved copper plates which,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}