Hiregutti Plates of Bhoja Aśaṁkita
Editor: Amandine Wattelier-Bricout.
Identifier: DHARMA_INSEI28_13.
Hand description:
Language: Sanskrit.
Repository: BESTOW - Amandine Wattelier-Bricout's Post-doc project (BESTOW).
Version: (b75bec8), last modified (9f59916).
Edition
⟨Page 1v⟩
I. Āryā
⟨1⟩ jayati surāsura-makuṭa-sphuṭa-maṇi-kiraṇāvalīḍha-caraṇa⟨2⟩yugaḥ ⟨.⟩
abaparamita-guṇa-gaṇa-nidhir nniṣkāraṇa-vatsalo bu⟨3⟩ddhaḥ ⟨.⟩
cd⟨4⟩ ⟨Page 2r⟩ ⟨5⟩ ⟨6⟩ ⟨7⟩ ⟨8⟩ ⟨Page 2v⟩ ⟨9⟩ imaṁ yo lobhād a¿v?⟨p⟩aharati sa pañca-mahāpātako bha⟨10⟩viṣyati
anuṣtubh
sva-dattāṁ para-dattāṁ vā
ayo hareta vasundharāṁ
bṣaṣṭiṁ⟨11⟩varṣa-sahasrāṇi
cviṣṭhāyāṁ jāyate kṛmi⟨ḥ⟩
dAnuṣṭubh
manu-pra⟨12⟩bhṛtibhir mānyaiḥ
abhuktā yady api rājabhiḥ
byasya yasya ya⟨Page 3r⟩⟨13⟩dā bhūmis
ctasya tasya tadā phalam
dAnuṣṭubh
Ārrya-saṅghāya dattāṁ yo
avṛ⟨14⟩ttiṁ pālaya mānava
bsa divaṁ prāpya divyātmā
ckalpa-koṭi⟨15⟩ṣu modate
dAnuṣṭubh
lobhād gṛhṇāti mandātmā
ayaḥ pumān pāpa-mo⟨16⟩hitaḥ
bnarake pacyate ghore
csa hi kalpān anekaśaḥ
dApparatus
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Script : southern alphabet of the early age (deccan and western part of South India). Language : sanskrit. Initial bendiction and final imprecation in verses. Praise of the lord of Buddha. Gift of village by the king to the Ārya Saṁgha. End : exhortation to protect the charity bestowed ipon the Ārya Saṁgha and an imprecation against its violators. No date but palaeography maybe end of the 5th and beginning of the 6th century
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Commentary
Notes from Desai [1958] 1949–1950 : "the present one appears to be the only buddhist copper-plate record of the early period so far known" Script : southern alphabet of the early age (deccan and western part of South India). Language : sanskrit. Initial bendiction and final imprecation in verses. Praise of the lord of Buddha. Gift of village by the king to the Ārya Saṁgha. End : exhortation to protect the charity bestowed ipon the Ārya Saṁgha and an imprecation against its violators. No date but palaeography maybe end of the 5th and beginning of the 6th century