Pictographs on the Metal Seals

The art of incising various types of pictographs on the bronze seals of the copper plate charters testify to the excellence of the art in the Sarabhauriya and Panduvamsi regimes at Sripura.

The surface of seals attached to the copper plate charters of Pravararaja, the founder of the kingdom of Sripura contains the figure of Laksmi with a holo around her face. She stands on a lotus, holding a lotus in her upraised right hand and an invisible object in the left hand. She is being bathed by an elephant standing on a lotus on her either side with water poured from a pitcher held in its uplifted trunk. There is a water lily on each corner.

The bronze seals attached to the copper plates charters of Tivaradeva have countersunk surface, with a circular borders and, are divided into two parts by horizontal lines. The upper part bears the figure of Garuda is holding a serpent with its raised hood in each of his two hands. On the proper right of Garuda, there is the emblem of a cakra (wheel) and on the left the symbol of a sankha (conch-shell).

On the contrary, the upper portion of the seals of Sivagupta Balarjuna contains the representation in relief of the figure of a humped bull (Nandin) couchant to left with a trisula (trident) in front and a Purna-Kumbha (water-fullpitcher) behind.