 Until recently (2013) it was believed that six plates formed two separate grants (dated c. 849 and c. 883 AD) issued by Kerala rulers to the Syrian Christian merchants.One part (4 plates) of the copper plates is kept at the Devalokam Aramana of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church while the other (2 small plates) is at Poolatheen Aramana (Thiruvalla) of Malankara Marthoma Syrian Church.The vertical plate contains a number of signatures of the witnesses to the grant in Arabic (Kufic script), Middle Persian (cursive Pahlavi script) and Judeo-Persian (standard square Hebrew script).