Sohagora
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Sohagora (सोहगोर) is a historical village on the banks of the Rapti River, about 20 km south-east of Gorakhpur, in the Gorakhpur District, Uttar Pradesh, India.
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Sohgaura copper plate inscription
The Sohgaura copper plate inscription is written in Prakrit in the Brahmi script. It was discovered in Sohgaura, a village on the banks of the Rapti River, about 20 km south-east of Gorakhpur, in the Gorakhpur District, Uttar Pradesh, India. [1]
The plate, consisting of a line of symbolic drawings and four lines of text, is the result of a molding. The inscription is sometimes presented as pre-Ashokan, even pre-Mauryan, but the writing of the plate, especially the configuration of akshara would rather suggest a date after Ashoka.[2] Archaeologist Raymond Allchin believes it to be from Ashoka's period, and considers it to be a precursor of the later copper-plate inscriptions. [3]
The text of the plate has been translated as follows. Its mentions the establishment of two grain depots (Kosthagara) to fight against famine.[4]
- Sāvatiyānam Mahāma(ttā)nam sāsane Mānavāsītika-
- ḍasilimate Ussagāme va ete duve koṭṭhāgālāni
- tina-yavāni maṃthulloca-chammā-dāma-bhālakān(i)va
- laṃ kayiyati atiyāyikāya no gahi(ta)vvāya[5]
- At the junction called Manawasi,
- these two storehouses are prepared,
- for the sheltering of loads of commodities,
- of Tiyavani, Mathura and Chanchu.
— Translated by Fleet[6]
This is the oldest Indian copper plate inscription known.[7][8]
सोहगोर
सोहगोरा (AS, p.995) वर्तमान में उत्तर प्रदेश के गोरखपुर ज़िले में स्थित है। गोरखपुर से 14 मील दूर इस ग्राम में सन् 1874 में एक ताम्रपट्ट प्राप्त हुआ था, जिस पर महत्त्वपूर्ण अभिलेख अंकित हैं। इसमें श्रावस्ती के कुछ राज्याधिकारियों के सरकारी अन्नभंडार के रक्षकों के प्रति आदेश सन्निहित हैं। सोहगोरा से मौर्योतर काल के सिक्के मिले हैं। सोहगोरा से कुषाणों के कई सिक्के और लोहे की वस्तुएँ मिली हैं। मौर्योतर काल से सम्बद्ध नगरीय जीवन के साक्ष्य तो मिले हैं, लेकिन गुप्तयुग का कोई भी ऐसा अवशेष नहीं मिला है, जिससे यह कहा जा सके कि यहाँ कोई आवासीय बस्ती थी। [9]
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- ↑ The Sohgaura copper plate inscription BM Barua Annals of the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute Vol. 11, No. 1 (1930), pp. 32-48
- ↑ p.85 Sircar 1942 Select Inscriptions Vol 1 OCR
- ↑ F. R. Allchin: The Archaeology of Early Historic South Asia: The Emergence of Cities and States, 1995, Cambridge University Press, isbn=978-0-521-37695-2, p.212
- ↑ 2000+ MCQs with Explanatory Notes For HISTORY by Disha Experts , p.63
- ↑ The Sohgaura copper plate inscription BM Barua Annals of the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute Vol. 11, No. 1 (1930), pp. 32-48
- ↑ Sircar 1942 Select Inscriptions Vol 1 OCR p.85
- ↑ F. R. Allchin (1995). The Archaeology of Early Historic South Asia: The Emergence of Cities and States. Cambridge University Press. p. 212. ISBN 978-0-521-37695-2.
- ↑ 2000+ MCQs with Explanatory Notes For HISTORY by Disha Experts p.63
- ↑ Aitihasik Sthanavali by Vijayendra Kumar Mathur, p.995