# Valabhipur plates of Guhasena I, [Valabhī] year 240, Śrāvaṇa śu. ?

Annette Schmiedchen

Author of digital edition: Annette Schmiedchen

Identifier: DHARMA_INSMaitraka00024

Repository: Maitraka (tfb-maitraka-epigraphy)

File path: xml-provisional/DHARMA_INSMaitraka00024.xml

Language: Sanskrit [Script (unspecified)]

Commit: 2026-10-29 16:36 (b7a8ff3), last modified 2026-09-29 17:32
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## Summary

Grant of land in favour of a Buddhist monastery [in Valabhī].

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## Edition

⟨Page 1r⟩

⟨Page 1v⟩ ⟨1⟩ ꩜ prasabhapraṇatāmitrāṇāṁ maitrakāṇām
atulabala(sa)patnamaṇḍalābhogasaṁsaktasaṁprahāraśata⟨2⟩labdhapratāpaḥ
pratāpopanatadānam¿a?⟨ā⟩nārjjavop¿a?⟨ā⟩rjjitānurāg(o)
nuraktam¡o!labhr̥tamitraśreṇ¿i?⟨ī⟩⟨3⟩bal¿a?⟨ā⟩vāptar(ā){j}jyaśrīḥ
paramamāheśvaraḥ śrīsenāpatibhaṭārkkas tasya sutas
tatpādarajoruṇāva⟨na⟩ta⟨4⟩pavitrīkr̥taśirāś
śir¿ā?⟨o⟩vanataśatrucūḍāmaṇiprabhāvicchuritapādanakhapaṅktid¿i?⟨ī⟩dhitir
ddīnān¿a?⟨ā⟩thakr̥pa⟨5⟩ṇajanopajīvyamānavibhavaḥ paramam¿a?⟨ā⟩heśvaraḥ
śrīsenāpatidharasenas tasyānujas
tatpā⟨6⟩dābhipraṇāmapraśasta{t}taravimalam¡o!limaṇir
mma¿ṇ?⟨n⟩vādipraṇītavidhividhānadharmmā dharmmarāja ⟨7⟩ (Iva)
vihitavinayavyavasthāpaddhatir akhilabhuvanama{ṁ}ṇḍalābhogaikasvāminā
paramasvāminā ⟨8⟩ svayam upahitar¿a?⟨ā⟩jyābhiṣ¿a?⟨e⟩kaḥ paramamāheśvaraḥ
śrīmahārājadroṇasiṁhas si⟨ṁ⟩ha Iva tasyā⟨9⟩nuja⟨ḥ⟩
svabhujabalaparākrameṇa paragajaghaṭānīkānām ekavijayī
śaraṇ¡e!ṣiṇā¿ma?⟨M⟩ ⟨10⟩ śaraṇam avaboddhā śāstrārtthatatvānāṁ
kalpatarur iva suhr̥tpraṇayināṁ yathābhilaṣitakā⟨11⟩maphalopabhogadaḥ
paramabhaṭṭārakapādānudhyātaḥ paramabhāgavataḥ
śrīmahārājadhruvasena⟨12⟩s tatpādābhipraṇāmaprabhāvaprakṣālitāśeṣakr̥ṣṇaḥ
kr̥ṣṇa iva nirastārātis(e)nāsaṁgaraḥ ⟨13⟩ sāgara iva
viśuddhādraṇamahārharatnapūrṇṇaḥ pūrṇṇacandra iva
sarvvajanatādarśanābhirāmaḥ ⟨14⟩ paramamāheśvaraḥ śrīmahārājaguhasenaẖ
kuśal(ī)sarvvān eva ⟨15⟩
rājasthānīyāmatyāyuktakaviniyuktakadrāṅgikacāṭabhaṭa⟨Page
2r⟩⟨16⟩[…]p(āś)i(kād)ī(n a)nyāṁ(ś) ca yathāsa(ṁ)baddhyamānakā(n)
sam(ā)[4×]

[…]⟨17⟩[…]pure pūjya duḍḍākāritavihārasya
(maitra)[2×](vā)[2×](ka)[…]⟨18⟩[…](prat)y(ā)yas sa(r)vvahiraṇyādeyaḥ
sadaśāparādhaḥ (pūvosīhā)[2×](ra)[1×](śva)[…]⟨19⟩[…]carovartteṣu caturṣu
mātāpitroḫ puṇyāpyāyananimittam ātmanaś
caihikāmuṣmikaphalāv(ā)[…]⟨20⟩[…](ta)tasya
gandhapuṣpadhūpadīpatailādi(k)riyotsarppaṇārtha(ṁ)saddharmasya
pustakopakra[…]⟨21⟩[…]nānādeśasamabh¿v?⟨y⟩āgatāṣṭādaśanikāy(ābhyantarā)ryya(bhikṣusaṁgha)sya
cīv¿i?⟨a⟩rapiṇḍapā(ta)[…]⟨22⟩[3×]bh¿a?⟨ai⟩ṣajāya vihārasya ca
khaṇḍasphuṭitaviśīrṇṇapratisa(ṁ)skāraṇārttham
ācandrārkkārṇṇa(vakṣ)i[3×]⟨23⟩[2×](tpa)rvvatasamak¿a?⟨ā⟩līnaḥ
bhūmicchidranyāyena sodakena kamaṇḍalunā visr̥ṣṭaḥ

yato sya (na kaiści)[4×]⟨24⟩[2×]paripanthanā vā
k¿a?⟨ā⟩ryyāgāminr̥patibhiś cānityāny aiśvaryyāṇy asthiraṁ mānuṣyaṁ
sāmānyaṁ ca bhūmi(dāna)[3×]⟨25⟩[3×]dbhir ayam asmaddāyo numa¿t?⟨n⟩tavyaḫ
pālayitavyaś ca yaś cācchi(n)dyād ācchidyamāna(ṁ) vānumodeta sa
[2×]⟨26⟩[2×](hā)pātakais sopapātakais saṁyuktas syād

api cātra ślokā bhavanti

1. Indravajrā

yānīha dāridr⟨y⟩abhayān narendrai[3×]⟨27⟩[3×]tanīkr̥tāni
nirmmālyavāntapratimāni tāni ko nāma sādhuḫ punar ādadīta ∥

2. Anuṣṭubh

vi(ndh)yā[3×]⟨28⟩[3×]śuṣkakoṭaravāsinaḥ
kr̥ṣṇāhayo hi jāyante pūrvvadāyaṁ haranti y(e) ∥

3. Anuṣṭubh

svada[4×]⟨29⟩[4×](re)ta vasundharāṁ
gavāṁ śatasahasrasya hantuḫ prāpnoti kilbiṣam

iti ∥ dūtako (tra) [3×]⟨30⟩[5×](putraviṣṇu)siṁheneti ⹀ ⟨31⟩ [3×] mama
śrīmahārājaguhasenasya ∥ saṁ 200 40 śrāvaṇa ś(u) [1×]

## Bibliography

First edited by Johann Georg Bühler with estampages; no translation
(Bühler 1878, № 9). Re-edited and encoded by Annette Schmiedchen on the
basis of the published estampages.

### Primary

[JGB] Bühler, Johann Georg. 1878. “Additional Valabhî grants: Nos.
IX-XIV.” IA 7, pp. 66–86.