The earliest inscriptions recording the royal land grants belong to which dynasty?

Answer & Explanation

Answer: [B]

In early India, land possessed great value and the gift of an estate was a marker of status.While the earliest inscriptions recording royal land grants were issued during Satavahana rule, the practice truly grew in scope from the fourth century CE.By the 5th-6th centuries, ruling dynasties across the subcontinent, as well as their subordinates and feudatories were all engaged in making such grants.Land grant charters were usually engraved on sheets of hammered copper. They are described as tamrapatta, a ‘plate of copper’ or tamrashasana, ‘an order in copper’.