# Valabhipur plate [of Śīlāditya I], [Valabhī] year 286, Śrāvaṇa ba. 7
(only plate 2)

Annette Schmiedchen

Author of digital edition: Annette Schmiedchen

Identifier: DHARMA_INSMaitraka00046

Repository: Maitraka (tfb-maitraka-epigraphy)

File path: xml-provisional/DHARMA_INSMaitraka00046.xml

Language: Sanskrit [Script (unspecified)]

Commit: 2026-10-29 16:36 (b7a8ff3), last modified 2026-09-29 15:29
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## Summary

Grant in favour of a Buddhist monastery; details of the donative object
lost due to damage.

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## Edition

⟨Page 1r⟩ ⟨1⟩ (yu)ktakadrāṅgikama(hattaracāṭabhaṭaku)mārāmātyādīn
any¿a?⟨ā⟩ṁś ca yathābhisambaddhyamāna[6×]⟨2⟩ty

astu vas saṁviditaṁ yathā mayā m¿a?⟨ā⟩tāpitroḫ puṇy¿a?⟨ā⟩pyāyanāya
vaṁśakaṭa(prati)[4×]⟨3⟩ritavihāranivāsicaturddigabhyāgatāryyabhikṣusaṁghasya
cīvarapiṇḍap(ā)[6×]⟨4⟩(glā)napratyaya(bhai)ṣajyapariṣkārārtthaṁ
buddhānāñ ca bhagavatāṁ
gandhadhūpapuṣpamāl(y)ad¿ī?⟨⟩patailā(dyupayo)[4×]⟨5⟩rasya
khaṇḍasphu(ṭi)tapratisaṁskārāya kalpikārapādamūlaprajīvanāya ca
k(ā)[2×]kapatha(k)e [5×] ⟨6⟩ (so)draṅga(s so)parikaras
sav(ā)tabhūtapratyāyas sadhānyahiraṇyādeyas sadaśāparādhas
sotpadya[6×]⟨7⟩[1×]kīyānām ahastaprakṣepaṇīyaḥ
pūrvvaprattadevabrahmadeyavarjjitaḥ
bhūmicchidranyāye[2×]ndrā[4×]⟨8⟩[1×]sarit(p)arvvatasamakālīnaḥ
Avyavacchittibhogya⟨ḥ⟩ dharmmadāyatayā nisr̥ṣṭaḥ

yata Ucitayā (d)ev(ā)[3×]⟨9⟩[1×]tyā bhujyamanakaḥ na kaiścit
paripanthanīyaḥ āgāmibhadranr̥patibhir apy asmadvaṁśajair anyair vvā
a[3×]⟨10⟩[1×]r(yy)āṇy asthiraṁ m¿a?⟨ā⟩nuṣyaṁ sām¿a?⟨ā⟩nyañ ca
bhūmidānaphalam avagacchadbhir ayam asmaddāyo numanta(vyaḥ)
[4×]⟨11⟩[4×]ti ∥

1. Anuṣṭubh

bahubhir vvasudhā bhuktā rājabhis sagarādibhiḥ
yasya yasya yadā bhūmis tasya (ta)[5×]

2. Indravajrā

⟨12⟩[1×]nīha dāridryabhayān narendrair ddhanāni dharmmāyatanīkr̥tāni
nirbbhuktamālyapratimā[4×]⟨13⟩[4×]ḫ punarādadīta ∥

3. Anuṣṭubh

¿p?⟨ṣ⟩a¿p?⟨ṣ⟩ṭiṁ varṣasahasrāṇi svargge mo¿deta?⟨dati⟩ bhūmidaḥ
Ā[6×]⟨14⟩[4×](narakeva)seT ∥

dūtakaś cātra bhaṭṭādityayaśāḥ ∥ likhitaṁ sandhi[8×]⟨15⟩[9×]saṁ 200 80 6
śrāvaṇa ba 7 ∥ ꩜ ∥ sva[4×]

## Bibliography

Preserved fragmentary second plate first edited by D. B. Diskalkar;
neither estampage nor translation (Diskalkar 1925, № 6). Re-edited and
encoded by Annette Schmiedchen on the basis of a fibre-glass replica.

### Primary

[DBD] Diskalkar, D. B. 1925. “Some unpublished copper-plates of the
rulers of Valabhī.” JBBRAS 1, pp. 16–63. Item 6.