{"id":363172,"date":"2026-05-19T15:42:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T10:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=363172"},"modified":"2026-05-19T15:42:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T10:12:07","slug":"chola-era-anaimangalam-copper-plates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/chola-era-anaimangalam-copper-plates\/","title":{"rendered":"Chola-era Anaimangalam Copper Plates"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"content-box-green\">\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong> In the presence of Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi and the Prime Minister of the Netherlands, Rob Jetten, the Leiden University Library restituted Chola-era Anaimangalam Copper Plates to the Government of India.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2 class=\"red-h2-box\"><strong>About Chola-era Anaimangalam Copper Plates<\/strong><\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_363173\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-363173\" style=\"width: 387px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-363173 \" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/copper.jpg?resize=387%2C258&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Chola-era Anaimangalam Copper Plates\" width=\"387\" height=\"258\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/copper.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/copper.jpg?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 387px) 100vw, 387px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-363173\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: News on air<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">It is a <strong>set of 21 large plates and 3 small plates<\/strong> with a combined weight of nearly <strong>30 kg<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">It is <strong>bound together by a bronze ring<\/strong> bearing the seal of <strong>King Rajaraja Chola I (985\u20131014 CE).<\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Belongs to:<\/strong> They are <strong>royal charters<\/strong> issued by <strong>Chola Kings during the 11th century CE.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">They are also known as the <strong>Leiden Plates across Europe.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Language used<\/strong>: <strong>Five plates<\/strong> bear inscriptions in <strong>Sanskrit<\/strong>, whereas <strong>sixteen<\/strong> are engraved in <strong>Tamil<\/strong>.\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Another group of plates<\/strong>, featuring the <strong>seal of Kulottunga Chola I,<\/strong> also includes <strong>inscriptions in Tamil.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Significance<\/strong>:\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">The copper plates are regarded as one of the <strong>most valuable records of the Chola Empire,<\/strong> detailing its <strong>administration, taxation, land reforms, irrigation systems, and trade practices.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">The inscriptions also highlight the<strong> dynasty\u2019s religious harmony<\/strong>, recording the grant of <strong>Anaimangalam village for a Buddhist vihara<\/strong> established by the <strong>Srivijaya rulers of Southeast Asia<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Historians believe the plates provide<strong> rare evidence of strong maritime, diplomatic, and cultural links<\/strong> between South and Southeast Asia nearly a thousand years ago.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">According to Historians, the inscriptions were <strong>transported to the Netherlands during Dutch colonial control<\/strong> over the Coromandel Coast in the 18th century.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">The plates later reached the collections of <strong>Leiden University in 1862<\/strong> and were subsequently preserved in the university library\u2019s Asian collections.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: In the presence of Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi and the Prime Minister of the Netherlands, Rob Jetten, the Leiden University Library restituted Chola-era Anaimangalam Copper Plates to the Government of India. About Chola-era Anaimangalam Copper Plates It is a set of 21 large plates and 3 small plates with a combined weight of&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/chola-era-anaimangalam-copper-plates\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Chola-era Anaimangalam Copper Plates<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10366,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,11212,12039],"tags":[11972,12085],"class_list":["post-363172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-history-and-art-culture-in-news","category-knolls","tag-9-pm-daily-factly","tag-news-on-air","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10366"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}