# Valabhipur plate of Guhasena I, [Valabhī] year 248, Māgha [ba.] ?
(only plate 2)

Annette Schmiedchen

Author of digital edition: Annette Schmiedchen

Identifier: DHARMA_INSMaitraka00025

Repository: Maitraka (tfb-maitraka-epigraphy)

File path: xml-provisional/DHARMA_INSMaitraka00025.xml

Language: Sanskrit [Script (unspecified)]

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## Summary

Grant of four villages in favour of a Buddhist monastery in Valabhī.

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## Edition

⟨Page 1r⟩ ⟨1⟩ […](sa)tvanikaṣa(ḥ
tat)prabhāvapraṇatārāti(c)ū[…]⟨2⟩[…](sakala)smr̥tipraṇītamārggasamyakparipālana(p)r(a)[…]⟨3⟩[…](ryya)buddhisaṁpadbhiḥ
(s)maraśaśāṅkādrirājodadhitridaśagurudhaneśān
a[…]⟨4⟩[…]yapradānaparatayā t¿ri?⟨r̥⟩ṇavadapā(s)tāśeṣasvakāryyaphalaḥ
prārtthanādhikārtthapradānāna(n)d(i)⟨5⟩[5×]tpra(ṇa)yihr̥(da)yaḥ
pādacā(r)ī(v)a sakalabhuvanamaṇḍalābhogapramodaḥ paramamāheśvaraḥ ⟨6⟩
śr(ī)[2×]rājaguhasenaẖ kuśalī sarvvān
evāyuktakaviniyuktakadrāṅgikamahattaracāṭabhaṭadhruvādhikaraṇikadāṇḍa⟨7⟩pāśika(co)roddharaṇikarājasthānīyakumārāmātyādīn
anyāṁś ca yathāsambaddhyamānakāN samājñāpayaty

astu vas saṁviditaṁ ⟨8⟩
(valabhī)talasanni(v)iṣṭaḍuḍḍāpādakāritaḍuḍḍāmahāvihāre
nānādigabhyāgatāṣṭādaśanikāyābhyantaraśākyāryyabhikṣusaṁ⟨9⟩gh(ā)ya
grāsācchādanaśayyāsanaglānapratyayabhaiṣajyādyupayogārttham
ānumaṁj(ī)prāveśyapippalaruṁkharīprāveśyaśamīpadravāṭaka(ṁ) ⟨10⟩ tathā
maṇḍalīdraṁge saṅgam(ā)nakaṁ deṭakahāre naddīyaṁ | tathā cossarī | evam
¡ai!tadgrāmacatuṣṭayaṁ soddraṅgaṁ soparikaraṁ
savātabhūta⟨11⟩dh(ā)nyahiraṇy(ā)deyaṁ sotpadyamā(n)aviṣṭikaṁ
sarvvarājakīyāhastaprakṣepaṇīyaṁ bhūmicchidranyāyena mayā mātāpitror
ātmanaś (c)ai[1×]⟨12⟩kāmuṣmikayathābhilaṣitaphalāvāptaye
Udakasarggeṇātisr̥ṣṭaṁ

yato syocitayā śākyāryyabhikṣusaṁghasthit⟨y⟩ā bhuṁjataḥ kr̥ṣataḥ
ka(rṣa)[1×]⟨13⟩to vā na (kai)ścit pratiṣedhe varttitavyam
āgāmibhadranr̥patibhiś cāsmadvaṅśajair anityāny aiśvaryy¿a?⟨ā⟩aṇy
asthiraṁ mānuṣyaṁ sāmānyaṁ ca bhūmidā[1×]⟨14⟩phalam ava(ga)cchadbhir
ayam asmaddāyo numantavyaḥ paripālayitavyaś ca (ya)ś cainam ācchi⟨n⟩dyād
ācchidyamānaṁ vānumodeta sa paṁ(cā)[1×]⟨15⟩[4×]saṁyuktas syāT trayyāṁ ca
varttamānaḥ paṁcabhir mmahāpātakais sopapātakais saṁyukta⟨ḥ⟩ syād

api ca ∥

1. Indravajrā

yānīha dārid(ra)[3×]⟨16⟩[2×](r ddhanāni dha)rmmāyatanīkr̥tāni |
nirmmālyavāntapratimāni tāni ko nāma sādhuḫ punar ādadīta ∥

2. Anuṣṭubh

bahubhir vvasudhā[4×]⟨17⟩[4×](dibhiḥ |)
yasya yasya yadā bhūmiḥ tasya tasya tadā phalam

iti ∥ svamukhājñā ∥ sva(ha)sto mama mahār(ā)[5×]⟨18⟩[1×] (li)khita(ṁ)
[1×](dhivi)grahādhikaraṇādhikr̥taskandabhaṭena ∥ saṁ 200 40 8 māgha ba
[…]

## Bibliography

First edited by Johann Georg Bühler with translation; no estampage
(Bühler 1875). Later again edited by Lionel David Barnett with
estampage; no translation (Barnett 1915–1916). Re-edited and encoded by
Annette Schmiedchen on the basis of a photograph of the original.

### Primary

[JGB] Bühler, Johann Georg. 1875. “A grant of king Guhasena of Valabhî.”
IA 4, pp. 174–176.

[LDB] Barnett, Lionel David. 1915–1916. “Wala plate of Guhasena: The
year 246.” EI 13, pp. 338–340.