# Valabhipur plates [of Dharasena II], unknown year

Annette Schmiedchen

Author of digital edition: Annette Schmiedchen

Identifier: DHARMA_INSMaitraka00042

Repository: Maitraka (tfb-maitraka-epigraphy)

File path: xml-provisional/DHARMA_INSMaitraka00042.xml

Language: Sanskrit [Script (unspecified)]

Commit: 2026-10-29 16:36 (b7a8ff3), last modified 2026-09-24 17:18
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## Summary

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

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## Edition

⟨Page 1r⟩

⟨Page 1v⟩ ⟨1⟩
[…]śatalabdhapra⟨2⟩[…]labhr̥tamitraśreṇī[…]⟨3⟩śrīḥ[…]vitrīkr̥[…]⟨4⟩[…]⟨5⟩[…]praṇāmapraśastataravimalamaulimaṇir
mmanvādipraṇītavidhi[11×]⟨6⟩vihita[6×]paddhatir
akhilabhuvanamaṇḍalābhogaikasvāminā paramasvāminā svayam
upa[9×]⟨7⟩viśrāṇanāvapūtarājyaśrīḥ paramamāheśvaro mahārājaśrī[4×]
si[5×]nu[10×]⟨8⟩(ṇa) paragajaghaṭānīkānām ekavijayī śaraṇaiṣiṇāṁ śaraṇam
avaboddhā śāstrārtthatatvānāṁ ka[10×]⟨9⟩nāṁ
yathābhilaṣitakāmaphalopabhogadaḥ paramabhāgavataḥ
śrīmahārājadhruvasenas tasyānu[8×]⟨10⟩praṇatipravidhautāśeṣakalmaṣaḥ
suviśuddhasva⟨ca⟩ritodakakṣālitāśeṣakalikala[14×]⟨11⟩mahimā
paramā[5×]mahārājadhara[5×]taḥ tatpādasaparyyāvāpta[8×]⟨12⟩bhr̥ti
khaḍgadvitīyabāhur eva samadaparagajaghaṭāsphoṭanaprakāśitasatvanikaṣaḥ
tatprabhā[8×]⟨13⟩ratnaprabhāsaṁsaktasavyapādanakharaśmisaṁhati⟨ḥ⟩
sakalasmr̥tipraṇītamārggasamyakparipālanaprajā[6×]⟨14⟩d
anvarttha[5×]pakāntisthairyyadhairyyagāmbhīryyabuddhisaṁpadbhiḥ
smaraśaśāṅkādrirājodadhitridaśagurudhaneśān a⟨15⟩tiśayāna⟨ḥ⟩
[3×]gatābhayapradānaparatayā tr̥ṇavadapāstāśeṣasvakāryyaphala⟨ḥ⟩
prārtthanādhikārtthapradānānandita⟨16⟩[4×]tpraṇayihr̥dayaḥ pādacārīva
sakalabhuvanamaṇḍalābhogapramodaḥ paramamāheśva⟨17⟩[5×] tasya sutaḥ
tatpādanakhamayūkhasantānavisr̥tajāhnavījalaughavikṣālitāśeṣakalmaṣaḥ⟨Page
2r⟩⟨18⟩[7×]sropa[6×]saṁpad rūpalobhād
ivāśri[7×]gāmi⟨19⟩[3×]śaktiśikṣāviśeṣavismāpitākhiladhanurddharaḥ
prathamanarapatisamatisr̥ṣṭānā⟨20⟩[5×]m apākarttā prajopaghātakāriṇām
upaplavānāṁ darśayitā śrīsarasvatyor
ekādhivā[…]⟨21⟩[…]paribhogadakṣavikrama⟨ḥ⟩
kramopasaṁprāptavimalapārtthivaśrī⟨ḥ⟩ paramamāheśvaro
mahārā[…]⟨22⟩[…]yuktakaviniyuktakamahattaracāṭabhaṭadhruvādhikaraṇika[…]⟨23⟩[…]yathāsaṁbadhyamānakān
samājñāpayaty

astu vas saṁviditaṁ yathā
mayā[…]⟨24⟩[…]muṣmikayathābhilaṣitaphalāvāptaye
śrīvalabhī[…]⟨25⟩[…]buddhasya buddhasya puṣpadhūpadīpatailapūjānimittaṁ
caturddigabhyāgatabhikṣusaṁghasya[…]⟨26⟩[…]rtthaṁ vihārasya ca
khaṇḍasph(u)ṭitaviśīrṇṇapratisaṁskaraṇārthaṁ[…]⟨27⟩[…] hariyāṇakagrāme
pūrvvadakṣiṇadi[…]⟨28⟩[…] sabhūtavātapratyāyaḥ sadhānya(bhāg)abh(o)gaḥ
sahira[…]⟨29⟩[…]prakṣepaṇīyaḥ
bhūmicchidranyāyenācandrārkkārṇṇavasaritkṣitisthiti[…]

⟨30⟩[…] paripanthanā kāryyāgāmibhadranr̥patibhir asmadvaṅśajair vvā
[…]⟨31⟩[…]dānaphalam avagacchadbhir ayam asmaddāyo numantavya⟨ḥ⟩[…]

⟨32⟩[…]

1. Indravajrā

[14×] dharmmāyatanīkr̥tāni
nirmmālya[19×]

[…]⟨33⟩[…] ⟨34⟩ dūtakaḥ (śrī)śīlādityaḥ likhitaṁ
sandhivigrahādhikr̥ta[10×] sva[…]

## Bibliography

First edited by D. B. Diskalkar; neither estampages nor translation
(Diskalkar 1925, № 4). Encoded by Annette Schmiedchen on the basis of
Diskalkar’s edition.

### Primary

[DBD] Diskalkar, D. B. 1925. “Some unpublished copper-plates of the
rulers of Valabhī.” JBBRAS 1, pp. 16–63. Item 4.