Dedication of a stone pillar, Mahendrapāla, year 5
Editors: Rajat Sanyal, Arlo Griffiths.
Identifier: DHARMA_INSBengalDed00112.
Hand description:
Pāla-period Siddhamātr̥kā with some modern traits. The anusvāra is realized in its modern Bengali form; the avagraha is explicitly noted.
Language: Sanskrit.
Repository: Bengal Dedication Inscriptions (tfb-bengalded-epigraphy).
Version: (5f23e1c), last modified (c6db288).
Edition
⟨1⟩ @ samvat· 5 śrāvaṇa-dine 7 ⟨2⟩ śrī{|}-mahendrapāladeva-rājye ⟨3⟩ bhi¿(ch)?⟨kṣ⟩u-sujayagarbheṇa vuddha⟨4⟩-bhaṭṭārakāya pradatta⟨ḥ⟩ sta⟨5⟩mbho ’yaṁ satvārthahetoḥ |
Apparatus
⟨1⟩ bhi¿(ch)?⟨kṣ⟩u-sujayagarbheṇa ⬦ bhi¿cch?⟨kṣ⟩u-Ajayagarbheṇa S • The second akṣara of the word intended as bhikṣu (or perhaps bhikkhu) is very hard to recognize as the cchu that Dikshit read.
Translation
During the reign of Śrī Mahendrapāladeva, year 5, on the seventh day of (the month of) Śrāvaṇa, the monk (named) Sujayagarbha offered this pillar to the Lord Buddha for the welfare of [all] beings.
Bibliography
First edited by K. N. Dikshit (1938). This digital edition (2025) by Rajat Sanyal from published documentation, with assistance from Arlo Griffiths.
Primary
[S] Dikshit, Kashinath. 1938. Excavations at Paharpur, Bengal. Memoirs of the Archaeological Survey of India 55. Delhi: Manager of publications. [URL]. Pages 74–75, plate LXV (a).
Secondary
Sanyal, Rajat. 2009. “Dedicatory inscriptions of the time of Mahendrapāla: a fresh appraisal.” In: Prajñādhara: Essays on Asian art history, epigraphy and culture in honour of Gouriswar Bhattacharya. Edited by Gerd J. R. Mevissen and Arundhati Banerji. New Delhi: Kaveri Books, pp. 302–318. Page 306, item 4.
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