On zankara's date - 2 (The view of Dvaraka Math)

[Yashwant Malaiya]

Vidyasankar wrote:

>Some people have questioned whether such a record of a grant even exists.

>Assuming that there is indeed such a copperplate recording a grant, there
>are important questions -
>1. Is it an original record of what Sudhanva gave, or a copy?
>2. What script was it written in? In 6th century BCE, it had to have been
>pre-Asokan Brahmi or Kharoshti.
>3. Who deciphered it? Where are the details published?
>4. Were copperplates used to record events in the 6th c. BCE?

The oldest known texts in India are a few, extremely rare
pre-Ashoka texts, among them the Sohgaura copper plate and
the Mahasthan inscription, perhaps from Chandragupta Maurya's
period. Sohgaura copper plate has been stolen and is in some
private collection.

Thus if the Sudhanva plate exists, it would be an extremely
important object.

Is the text in Sanskrit? All known inscriptions well until about
first cent. BCE or so are in Prakrit (Pali).

Yashwant