Global InformationMampalli copper plate information
The Mampalli copper plate (974 AD), also romanised as Mamballi, records a donation from the chiefly family of Venad, present-day Kerala, to the Chengannur Temple.[1] The inscription is the earliest epigraphical record to mention the Kollam Era (Kollan-Tonri Era, 149).[1][2]
The record is engraved on both sides of a single copper plate in Vattezhuthu with Grantha characters in an early form of Malayalam language. The plate was originally owned by Mampalli Madhom, near Trivandrum (now at Padmanabhapuram Museum).[1]
A second plate, companion to the first one and ascribed approximately to the same date, is owned by Mampalli Madhom.[1]
- ^ a b c d Narayanan, M. G. S. 2013. 'Index to Chera Inscriptions', in Perumāḷs of Kerala, M. G. S Narayanan, pp. 218 and 478–79. Thrissur (Kerala): CosmoBooks.
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