page_title: Vazhappally copper plate
section_title: Translation
hierarchical_section_title: Vazhappally copper plate / Translation
caption_attribution_description: English: Vazhappally Plates മലയാളം: വാഴപ്പള്ളി ശാസനം
context_page_description: Vazhappally copper plate is a copper plate inscription in Malayalam language from Vazhappally, in the state of Kerala, south India. It is one of the earliest available epigraphical records mentioning a Chera Perumal ruler of Kerala. Recent scholarship puts the date of the plate in c. 882/83 AD.
  The inscription is engraved on a single copper plate in an early form of Malayalam in Vattezhuthu script with some Grantha characters. The contents of the plate are incomplete. The inscription was discovered by V. Srinivasa Sastri from Talamana Illam near Changanassery. The plate is owned by Muvidathu Madham, Thiruvalla.
  The record is dated to the twelfth regnal year of king Rajasekhara.
  King Rajasekhara is described as "Sri, Raja Rajadhiraja, Parameswara Bhattaraka, Rajashekhara Deva" and "the Perumal Atikal".
  The copper plate describes a temple committee resolution by Thiruvatruvay Pathinettu Nattar and the Urar of Vazhappally in the presence of king Rajasekhara on a land grant for the daily worship in the Thiruvatruvay temple.
  The fines for those who obstruct the daily worship in the temple are also prescribed.
caption: Travancore Archaeological Series (Volume II, Part II)
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