A New Inscription of the P?nduvam?ins of Daksina Kosala Philadelphia Museum of Art Copper-Plates of Nannar?ja I, Year 7

This is the first notice, edition, and translation of a royal order in Sanskrit, engraved on a set of three copper-plates kept in the permanent collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The inscription is dated to the seventh year of the reign of Nanna-raja I, king of the Panduvamsin lineage active in Daksina Kosala in the sixth and sev-enth centuries CE. The inscription provides important new information about a fam-ily of engravers, probably relocated from garabhapura to Sirpur, who served both the garabhapuriya and Panduvamsin courts. The plates further suggest that Nannaraja I, as the first Panduvamsin king of South Kosala, continued the epigraphic traditions of the garabhapuriyas, whom he may have served with his father Indrabala in his early career before the conflicts which brought him to power.