page_title: Chamak copper plates
section_title: Location
hierarchical_section_title: Chamak copper plates / Location
caption_attribution_description: English: View of the village of Chamak Khurd, Maharashtra, India. The river shown here is Chandrabhaga, tributary of river Purna.
context_page_description: The Chamak copper plates are an epigraphic record of the Vākāṭaka dynasty, documenting a land donation to brāhmaṇas in the reign king Pravarasena II in the fifth century CE. They were found at Chamak, in District Amravati, Maharashtra, India.
context_section_description: Chamak or Chammak is located 6.0 miles SW of Acalpur according to Amravati district Gazetteer published by the Government of Maharashtra. According to J. F. Fleet the village is four miles s. w. of Ilichpur (Ellichpur). This is the old name for Achalpur. Chamak currently consists of a cluster of three villages on the banks of the Chandrabhāgā river with those on the eastern bank known as Chamak Khurd and Chamak Buzurg. The plates were found in a field near the village in the 19th century and were acquired by Major H. Szczepanski. They are now in the collection of the British Library registered under the number Ind. Ch. no. 16.
caption: Chamak Khurd village in 2012
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