Damodarpur

Author:Laxman Burdak, IFS (R)

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Variants

• Damodarapura दामोदरपुर (बंगाल) (AS, p.431)

दामोदरपुर (बंगाल)

विजयेन्द्र कुमार माथुर ने लेख किया है ...दामोदरपुर (बंगाल) (AS, p.431) Kumara Gupta I।कुमारगुप्त प्रथम, बुद्धगुप्त तथा भानुगुप्त नामक गुप्त नरेशों के 6 दानपट्ट इस स्थान से प्राप्त हुए थे जिनमें उत्तरकालीन गुप्त नरेशों के इतिहास तथा तत्कालीन शासन व्यवस्था पर अच्छा प्रकाश पड़ता है.

Damodarpur Inscriptions

The copperplates, recently discovered at Damodarpur in Dinajpur district of Bengal are, from the historical point of view, far more illuminating.

Damodarpur Copper-plate Inscription of the time of Budhagupta Gupta Year 163 (=A.D.482)

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Ref - Epigraphia Indica XV, p.135, Select Inscriptions by D. C. Sircar p. 332

Damodarpur Copper-plate Inscription of the time of Kumaragupta I Gupta Year 124 (=A.D. 443)

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Ref - Epigraphia Indica XV, p.130, Select Inscriptions by D. C. Sircar p. 290

Damodarpur Copper-plate Inscription of the time of Kumaragupta I Gupta Year 128 (=A.D. 448)

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Ref - Epigraphia Indica XV, p.133, Select Inscriptions by D. C. Sircar p. 292

Damodarpur Copper-plate Inscription of the time of Budhagupta (=A.D. 476-94)

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Ref - Epigraphia Indica XV, p.138, Select Inscriptions by D. C. Sircar p. 336

Damodarpur Copper-plate Inscription of the Gupta Year 224 (= A.D. 543)

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Ref - Epigraphia Indica XV, p.142, Select Inscriptions by D. C. Sircar p. 346

Two of these plates, dated 124 G. E. and 128 G. E. ( 443 AD and 447 AD), belong to the reign of Kumara Gupta I. The first of these records points out that in 443 AD, when the Paramadaivata Paramabhataraka Maharajadhiraja Kumara Gupta was the ruling sovereign, an Uparika, named Ciratadatta, was the governor of Pundravardhana Bhukti in Bengal. Under him there was Kumaramatya Vetravarman, who served as the governor of the district of Kotivarsa. The copper plate records that a Brahmin, named Karpatika, applied to the local officials for the sale of a piece of waste land to him. The application was sanctioned and the sale confirmed by the inscription on the copperplate. The process mentioned herein is of considerable importance from the point of view of the revenue administration and the economic life of the Gupta period.

The second Damodarpur copperplate also mentions Ciratadatta and Vetravarman and is of great interest for the economic history of the period.

External links

• A HISTORY OF THE GUPTAS