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Chola Copper Plates: Land Grants That Shaped an Empire
Beyond stone temples and bronze icons, the Chola Empire left its mark on thousands of copper plates — thin sheets inscribed with legal deeds, land grants, and tax exemptions. These plates were the empire's administrative backbone, recording everything from village boundaries to royal genealogies. In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore how the Chola bureaucracy used copper-plate charters to bind distant provinces, reward loyal officers, and project divine authority. They focus on the Leiden copper plates, which record the gift of a village in Nagapattinam to a Buddhist monastery…
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