# Valabhipur plates of Śīlāditya I, unknown date

Annette Schmiedchen

Author of digital edition: Annette Schmiedchen

Identifier: DHARMA_INSMaitraka00055

Repository: Maitraka (tfb-maitraka-epigraphy)

File path: xml-provisional/DHARMA_INSMaitraka00055.xml

Language: Sanskrit [Script (unspecified)]

Commit: 2026-10-29 16:36 (b7a8ff3), last modified 2026-09-29 15:49
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## Summary

Grant of two villages in favour of a Buddhist monastery.

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## Edition

⟨Page 1r⟩

⟨Page 1v⟩ ⟨1⟩ […]⟨2⟩[…]maulabhr̥taśreṇī[…]⟨3⟩[…]vaṅśān
mātāpitr̥caraṇāravindapraṇatipravidhautāśe[…]⟨4⟩[…]hur eva
samadaparagajaghaṭāsphoṭanaprakāśitasatvanikaṣas
ta[…]⟨5⟩[…]saṁsaktapādanakharaśmisaṁhatiḥ
sakalasmr̥tipraṇītamārggasamyakpa[…]⟨6⟩[…]rājaśabdaḥ
rūpakāntisthairyyadhairyyagāmbhīryyabuddhisampadbhiḥ
smaraśaśāṅkādri[…]⟨7⟩[…]śān atiśayānaś śaraṇāgatābhayapradānaparatayā
tr̥ṇavadapāstāśeṣa[…]⟨8⟩[…]dhikārtthapradānānanditavidvatsuhr̥tpraṇayihr̥dayaḥ
pādacārīva sakalabhuvana[…]⟨9⟩[…]daḥ paramamāheśvaraḥ śrīguhasenas tasya
sutas tatpādanakhamayūkhasantānavi[…]⟨10⟩[…]kṣālitāśeṣakalmaṣaḥ
praṇayiśatasahasropajīvyamānasaṁpad rūpalobhād i[…]⟨11⟩[…]bhigāmikair
gguṇais sahajaśaktiśikṣāviśeṣavismāpitākhilabaladhanurddharaḫ
prathama[…]⟨12⟩[…]sr̥ṣṭānām anupālayitādharmmadāyānām apākarttā
prajopaghātakāriṇām upaplavānāṁ da[…]⟨13⟩[…]tyor ekādhivāsasya
saṁhatārātipakṣalakṣmīparibhogadakṣavikramo
vikramopasaṁprāpta[…]⟨14⟩[…]śrīḥ paramamāheśvaraḥ śrīdharasenas tasya
sutas tatpādānudhyātas
sakalajagadānandanā[…]⟨15⟩[…]sthagitasamagradiṅmaṇḍalas
samaraśatavijayaśobhāsanāthamaṇḍalāgradyutibhāsura[…]⟨16⟩[…]gurumanorathamahābhāraḥ
sarvvavidyāparāvaravibhāgādhigamavimalamatir api sa[…]⟨17⟩[…]nāpi
sukhopapādanīyaparitoṣaḥ samagralokāgādhagāmbhīryyahr̥dayo pi
sucari[…]⟨18⟩[…]makalyāṇasvabhāvaḥ
khilībhūtakr̥tayuganr̥patipathaviśodha[…]⟨19⟩[…]tārtthasukhasampadupasevānirūḍhadharmmā[…]⟨Page
2r⟩⟨20⟩[…]kadrā[…]⟨21⟩[…]badhyamānakān sa[…]

⟨22⟩[…] puṇyāpyāyanāya
vaṅśakaṭasvatalaniviṣṭāsmatkāritavihāra[…]⟨23⟩[…]piṇḍapātaśayanāsanaglānapratyayabh¿i?⟨ai⟩ṣajya(pariṣkarāya)[…]⟨24⟩[…]snānagandhadīpatailapuṣpamālyavādyagītanr̥tyādyupayogāya
ca vihā[…]⟨25⟩[…] (Akṣa)sarakapathakāntarggatavyāghradinnānakaṁ ⁓ tathā
(kāla)[…]⟨26⟩[…](kā)laṇa[1×]m etad grāmadvayaṁ sodraṅgaṁ soparikaraṁ
savātabhūtapratyāyaṁ […]⟨27⟩[…] sadaśāparādhaṁ sotpadyamānaviṣṭi⟨ṁ⟩
sarvvarājakīyānām ahastaprakṣepaṇīyaṁ […]⟨28⟩[…]
bhūmicchidranyāyenācandrārkkārṇṇavakṣitisaritparvvatasamakālīnaṁ
vihārasaṅgha[…]

⟨29⟩[…] Uparilikhitasthityā bhuṁjamānasya na kaiścid vyāsedhe
varttitavyam āgāmibhadranr̥pati[…]⟨30⟩bhi[8×]r vvā Anityāny aiśvaryyāṇy
asthiraṁ mānuṣyaṁ sāmānyaṁ ca bhūmidānaphalam avagacchadbhiḥ ⟨31⟩
[8×]smaddāyo numantavyaḥ paripālayitavyaś cety

uktaṁ ca bhagavatā vedavyāsena vyāsena

1. Anuṣṭubh

[…]⟨32⟩[…] bhuktā rājabhis sagarādibhiḥ
yasya yasya yadā bhūmis tasya tasya ta[…]

2. Indravajrā

⟨33⟩[…]yān narendrair ddhanāni dharmmāyatanīkr̥tāni
nirbbhu{ṁ}ktamālyapratimāni tāni ko nāma sā[…]⟨34⟩[…]

3. Anuṣṭubh

ṣaṣṭiṁ varṣasahasrāṇi svargge modati bhūmidaḥ
Ācchettā cānumantā ca tā[…]⟨35⟩[…]

dūtako tra śrīkharagrahaḥ ∥ likhitaṁ
sandhivigrahādhikr̥tadivirapati[…]⟨36⟩[…]hula 7 svahasto mama [2×]

## Bibliography

First edited by D. B. Diskalkar; neither estampage nor translation
(Diskalkar 1925, № 8). 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 8.