# CSMVS plate of Dharasena IV, unknown date (only plate 2; fragmentary)

Annette Schmiedchen

Author of digital edition: Annette Schmiedchen

Identifier: DHARMA_INSMaitraka00079

Repository: Maitraka (tfb-maitraka-epigraphy)

File path: xml-provisional/DHARMA_INSMaitraka00079.xml

Language: Sanskrit [Script (unspecified)]

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## Summary

Grant of land in favour of a Tārā shrine.

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## Edition

⟨Page 1r⟩ ⟨1⟩ […] (sā)dhūnāṁ rājyasālāturīyatantrayor ubhayo[r]
[…]⟨2⟩[…] kānto pi praśamī sthirasauhr̥dayyo pi nirasitā doṣavatām
udayasamayasamupajanita[…]⟨3⟩[…] (paramamāheśvaraḥ) śrīdhruvasenas tasya
sutas
tatpādakamalapraṇāmadharaṇikaṣaṇa[…]⟨4⟩[…]mauktikālaṅkāravibhramāmalaśrutaviśeṣaḥ
pradānasalilakṣālitāgrahastāravindaḥ […]⟨5⟩[…] kārmuke dhanurvveda Iva
sambhāvitāśeṣalakṣakalāpaḥ […]⟨6⟩[…] (parama)māheśvaraḫ
paramabhaṭṭārakamahārājādhirājaparameśvara(cakravarttiśrīdharasenaḥ
kuśalī) sarvvān eva samājñāpayaty

astu vas saṁviditaṁ ⟨7⟩ […]troḫ puṇyāpyāyanāya (surāṣṭreṣu
kāṇasīhānakagrāme) […]
(divirapatiśrīskandabhaṭakā)ritagandhaku[…]⟨8⟩[…](vīpāde)bhyaḥ
gandhapuṣpadhūpadīpatailādyarttha(ṁ tan)nivāsi
caturddigabhyāgatāryyabhikṣusaṁghasya ca
cīvarapiṇḍapātaśayanāsanaglā⟨9⟩[na](bhaiṣa)jyādyārthaṁ gandhakuṭyāś ca
khaṇḍasphuṭitapratisaṁskaraṇāya pādamūlajīvanāya ca surāṣṭreṣu
l(ū)śā(padrakā)ntarggata(brahma)[…]⟨10⟩[…]prakr̥ṣṭatrikhaṇḍāvasthitakṣetra(ṁ)
[2+]pūrvasīmni prathamakhaṇḍaṁ yasyāghāṭanāni pūrvvataḥ […](satkakṣetraṁ
dakṣiṇataḥ) […]⟨11⟩[…] (Aparataḥ) kāliyakasatkakṣetraṁ Uttarataḥ
(coghi)ṭakasatkakṣetraṁ tathottarasīmni dvitīyakhaṇḍaṁ
(ya)sy(āghāṭanāni) pūrvva[…]⟨12⟩[…] (da)kṣi(ṇataḥ)
sīhā(na)kasatkakṣetraṁ (⁓) Aparataḥ (bor)īkṣetraṁ ⁓ Uttarataḥ […]⟨13⟩[…]
[Ā]ghāṭanāni pūrvvataḥ droṇakasatkakṣetraṁ (⁓) dakṣiṇataḥ
(A)ṇa(ṅga)kasatka[…]⟨14⟩[…]navākūpakasaṁjñ(i)tā vā(pī) ya(syā)ḥ
Āghāṭa[…]⟨15⟩[10 lost lines]

## Bibliography

Preserved fragmentary second plate first edited by P. R. Srinivasan with
photograph; no translation (Srinivasan 1969–1970, № B). Re-edited and
encoded by Annette Schmiedchen on the basis of a digital photograph and
an ASI photograph of the original.

### Primary

[PRS] Srinivasan, P. R. 1969–1970. “Two fragmentary charters of Maitraka
Dharasena IV.” EI 38, pp. 219–224. Item B.