English: An early Gupta era inscription from ancient India. The inscribed copper plates by 19th century archaeologists in Raipur, Chhattishgarh. The Sanskrit inscription is a Hindu king's donations and grant of villages for the upkeep of a Hindu temple (now lost).

This is a photograph of a personal copy of plates published by John Fleet in 1888, with Inscriptions Of The Early Gupta Kings And Their Successors, as a part of the Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum series, Vol. 3. The inscriptions are 2-D art created in or before the 5th-century CE. The publication date of the photographic plates by Fleet (d. 1917) in 1888 makes the work qualify for the PD-Art-100-70 guidelines. Any rights I have, I herewith donate to wikimedia under Creative Commons 4.0 license.