Dedication of a stone pillar, Mahendrapāla, year 5 author of digital edition Rajat Sanyal Arlo Griffiths European Research Council (ERC), grant agreement no 809994 DHARMA Kolkata DHARMA_INSBengalDed00112.xml CC BY-SA 4.0 2019-2026 DHARMAbase

Pāla-period Siddhamātr̥kā with some modern traits. The anusvāra is realized in its modern Bengali form; the avagraha is explicitly noted.

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* samvat· 5 śrāvaṇa-dine 7 śrī.-mahendrapāladeva-rājye bhichkṣu-sujayagarbheṇa vuddha-bhaṭṭārakāya pradattaḥ stambho 'yaṁ satvārthahetoḥ .

bhichkṣu-sujayagarbheṇa bhicchkṣu-Ajayagarbheṇa The second akṣara of the word intended as bhikṣu (or perhaps bhikkhu) is very hard to recognize as the cchu that Dikshit read.

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.

First edited by K. N. Dikshit (). This digital edition (2025) by Rajat Sanyal from published documentation, with assistance from Arlo Griffiths.

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