Exhortatory stanzas in Veṅgī Cālukya copperplate charters: dataset

These spreadsheets are a dataset on the use of exhortatory stanzas in copperplate land grants of the Veṅgī Cālukya dynasty.This dataset is a result of the project DHARMA ‘The Domestication of “Hindu” Asceticism and the Religious Making of South and Southeast Asia’. This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement no 809994). Analyses of the data reflect only the author’s view. The funding Agency is not responsible for any use that may be made of the information contained herein.The data were compiled by Dániel Balogh in 2024, and this dataset was finalised and archived in August 2025.Research based on these data has been presented at the workshop "Gift Protection in South and Southeast Asia", held 24-26.09.2024 at the Campus Condorcet, Paris-Aubervilliers.The slides for the workshop presentation are available at https://www.academia.edu/143498725/Exhortatory_stanzas_what_s_all_the_fuss_aboutA paper on the topic is forthcoming in 2026 in the online journal Manuscript and Text Cultures, https://mtc-journal.org/index.php/mtcThe data are based on Dániel Balogh's digital editions of VeṅgĪ Cālukya copper plates, created for the project DHARMA and available at https://dharmalekha.info/texts?q=repo:tfb-vengicalukya-epigraphy (the URL may change in the future).Digital editions may evolve over time. These data are drawn from the editions as of summer 2024.The data also reference Amandine Wattelier-Bricout's BESTOW project, https://erc-dharma.github.io/output-bestow/display-bestow.html