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Thiruvalla copper plates

Hey kiddo, have you ever heard of something called the "Thiruvalla Copper Plates"? Let me tell you all about it in a way that even a five-year-old can understand!

So, a long, long time ago, in a place called Thiruvalla in India, there were some really important people called kings. Now these kings, they were very powerful and they wanted to show their power by writing down some very important things on something called copper plates.

These copper plates were kind of like really big and fancy pieces of metal that the kings could write on to make their words last forever. And that's just what they did! The Thiruvalla Copper Plates had some really important stuff written on them, like how the kings were really rich and powerful and how everyone should listen to them.

But the most important thing about the Thiruvalla Copper Plates was that they helped people remember what life was like a really long time ago. You see, sometimes when people forget things, they write them down so they don't forget again. And that's just what these kings did, they wrote down their history so that people could always remember what happened back then.

So that's the story of the Thiruvalla Copper Plates! They were really important pieces of metal that had some really important stuff written on them by some really important people a really long time ago. And now we know about them so we can remember what happened back then!