A tāmrapatra recording a land grant to Cāṅgu Garuḍa Nārāyaṇa Guṭhī for distributing alms (NS 805)

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Identifier: K_0633_0067
Title: A tāmrapatra recording a land grant to Cāṅgu Garuḍa Nārāyaṇa Guṭhī for distributing alms (NS 805)
Type, original: tāmrapatra; unspecified

Content

Abstract: This copper-plate deals with the land grant of 72 ropanis to the Cāngu Garuḍa Nārāyaṇa trust for a purpose of distributing alms for 4 days to the fakirs, monks, nuns, hermits and brahmacāris who visited there. Trustees guilty of negligence and failure to look after the task shall incur great sin and condemn to hell as a worm for 60 thousand years.
Issued by and to:
Place: Cāngu; Garuḍā Nārāyaṇa: Sadāvarta
Donor, king: King Jayaparthibendra Malla Deva and his Queen Śri Rājya Lakṣmi Devi
Type of endowment: land
Region of endowment:
Purpose of endowment:
Amount of endowment: 72 ropanīs of land

Date

Date: NS 805 Mārgaśīrṣa bright 15 unspecified
Further details:
Converted:

Script and language

Language, script: Sanskrit, Newari; Devanagari

Physical appearance

Width, height, and unit: 22.00; 37.00; cm
No. of folios:
Material, binding, and colour: Nepali paper; loose; unspecified
Condition: dim; complete

Institution

Institution and reg. no.: Bhadrakālī; none
Source and details: NGMPP catalogue card; Microfilmed on 20/04/1998 as NGMPP K 633/67
Running no., exposures: K 42347; 1

Project specific information

Created, modified, ID: 11/20/19, 12:00 AM; 12/22/21, 10:01 AM; 18
Notes: card gives type of document as: "tāmrapatra (copper plate)"
Technical terms: ropanī

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