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The request to bring backmost the Anaimangalam Chola-era copper plates to Tamil Nadu has gathered momentum. The plates, presently successful the possession of Leiden University successful the Netherlands, were precocious presented to Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his sojourn to The Hague.
Su. Venkatesan, Lok Sabha Member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), said 654 antiques from respective countries, including the United States, had been brought backmost to India and kept astatine Purana Qila successful New Delhi.
“But they are not connected show for radical to spot them. The aforesaid should not hap to the Anaimangalam copper plates. They should beryllium handed implicit to the Archaeology Department of Tamil Nadu,” helium said. The plates, belonging to the play of Rajendra Chola I, incorporate a decree primitively issued by his begetter Raja Raja Chola I granting the colony of Anaimangalam arsenic Pallichchandam. The assistance was made to enactment the Chudamani Vihara, a Buddhist monastery constructed successful Nagapattinam.
Tracing the Anbil plates
Mr. Venkatesan besides pointed retired that the Anbil copper plates, which documented the genealogy of the Chola kings, could not beryllium traced adjacent though their contents had been copied.
“While Leiden University preserved the Anaimangalam plates, the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) has not been capable to support the Anbil plates. The ASI should instrumentality efforts to hint them,” helium said.
Call for nationalist display
MDMK wide caput Vaiko besides said the plates should beryllium kept astatine the Nagapattinam museum.
R. Komagan, president of the Gangaikonda Cholapuram Development Council, said the Anaimangalam copper plates should beryllium brought to Gangaikonda Cholapuram — which served arsenic a superior of the Chola Dynasty for astir 3 centuries from the reign of Rajendra Chola I — and placed connected imperishable nationalist display.
“It tin beryllium safely exhibited and preserved either wrong the buildings owned by the ASI wrong the temple analyzable oregon successful areas specified arsenic the temple’s mahamandapam,” helium added.
