# Valabhipur Plate of Śīlāditya III, [Valabhī] year 343, dvi-Āṣāḍha ba.
? (only plate 2; fragmentary)

Annette Schmiedchen

Author of digital edition: Annette Schmiedchen

Identifier: DHARMA_INSMaitraka00085

Repository: Maitraka (tfb-maitraka-epigraphy)

File path: xml-provisional/DHARMA_INSMaitraka00085.xml

Language: Sanskrit [Script (unspecified)]

Commit: 2026-10-29 16:36 (b7a8ff3), last modified 2026-09-29 17:08
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## Summary

Grant of the village of Sīhāṇaka[?] in favour of a Buddhist monastery.

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## Edition

⟨Page 1r⟩ ⟨1⟩ [1 lost
line]⟨2⟩[…]mahārājādhirājaparameśvaracakravarttiśrīdhara[…]⟨3⟩[…]dūraṁ
tatpādāravindapravr̥ttayā nakhamaṇirucā mandākinyeva
(ni)tya[…]⟨4⟩[…](dākṣiṇyam ātanvānasya prabaladhava)limnā yaśasāṁ
valayena maṇḍitakakubh(ā)[…]⟨5⟩[…]syāṅgajaḥ kṣitipasaṁhater anurāgiṇyāḥ
śuciya¿jh?⟨ś⟩oṅśuka(bh)r̥ta(ḥ) svayaṁ[…]⟨6⟩[…]caṇḍaripumaṇḍalaṁ
maṇḍalāgram ivāvalambamānaḥ śaradi prasabham ākr̥ṣṭaśilīmu[…]⟨7⟩[…]haṇaḥ
pūrvvam eva vividhavarṇṇo⟨j⟩jvalena śrutātiśayenodbhāsitaśravaṇaḥ
pu(naḥ) […]⟨8⟩[…]tnakiraṇam
avicchinnapradānasalilanivahāvasekavilasannavaśaivalāṅkuram ivāgrapāṇim
udvaha[…]⟨9⟩[…]ṣvaktaviśvambharaḥ paramamāheśvaraḥ śrīdhruvasenas
tasyāgrajo paramahīpatisparśadoṣanā¿s?⟨ś⟩anadhiyeva
[…]⟨10⟩[…]cirataracaritagarimaparikalitasakalanarapatir
atiprakr̥ṣṭānurāgarasarabhasavaśīkr̥tapra(ṇatasamasta)[…]⟨11⟩[…]malayugalaḥ
proddāmodāradorddaṇḍadalitadviṣadvarggadarppaḥ
prasarppatpaṭīyaḫpratāpaplo(ṣitāśeṣaśatruva)[…]⟨12⟩[…]sudarśanacakraḥ
parihr̥tabālakrīḍo nadhaẖkr̥tadvijātir ekavikramaprasādhitadharitrī(talo
naṅgīkr̥tajala)[…]⟨13⟩[…]myagvyavasthāpitavarṇṇāśramācāraḥ pūrvvair apy
ūrvvīpatibhis t¿ri?⟨r̥⟩ṣṇālavalubdhair yyāny apahr̥tāni
(devabrahmadeyāni)[…]⟨14⟩[…]ṅkalanānumodanābhyāṁ
parimuditatribhuvanābhinanditocchritotkr̥ṣṭadhavaladharmmadhvajapra(kāśitanijavaṅśo)
[…]⟨15⟩[…]rttitamahoddraṅgādidānavyasanānupajātasantoṣopāttodarakīrttipaṁktiparaṁparādanturitanikhila[…]⟨16⟩[…]mā
paramamāheśvaraḥ śrīkharagrahas tasyāgrajanmanaẖ kumudaṣaṇḍaśrīvikāsinyā
kalāvataś candri(kayeva
kīrtyā)[…]⟨17⟩[…]lepanapiṇḍaśyāmalavindhyaśailavipulapayodharābhogāyāḥ
kṣoṇyāḫ patyuḥ śrīśīlādityasya (sūnu)[…]⟨18⟩[…]nakalācakravālaẖ
kesa(rīndra)śiśu(r) iva rājalakṣmīm acalavanasthalīm ivālaṅkurvvāṇaḥ
śikhaṇḍiketana iva ruci(maccūḍā)[…]⟨19⟩[…]gama Iva pratāpavān
ullasatpadmas saṁyuge vidalayann ambhodharān iva paragajān udaya eva
tapanabālā[…]⟨20⟩[…] dviṣatāṁ paramamāhe(śvaraḥ) śrīśīlādityaẖ kuśalī
sarvvān eva samājñāpayaty

astu vas saṁviditaṁ ya[2+]yā mā[…]⟨21⟩[…]
ḍuḍḍāvihāra(maṇḍalāntarggatā)cāryyabhikṣusthiramatikāritavihāre
Ācāryyabhikṣuvimalaguptakāri(tabhāgava)[…]⟨22⟩[…]
ḍuḍḍāvihāramaṇḍala(prāveśya)kukkurāṇakagrāmaniviṣṭācāryyabhikṣuvimalaguptakārita(vihāre)
[…]⟨23⟩[…]bhaiṣajyac(ī)varikādyupayogāya [2+]saṁbuddhānāṁ ca bhagavatāṁ
buddhānāṁ gandhadhūpapuṣpa[…]⟨24⟩[…]sya
khaṇḍasphuṭitapratisaṁskaranārthaṁ surāṣṭreṣu (bāvasanaka)sthalyāṁ
(sīhāṇaka)grāmaḥ (sodraṅgaḥ) […]⟨25⟩[…] sotpadyamānaviṣṭikaḥ
sarvvarājakīyānām ahastaprakṣepaṇī(yaḥ
pūrvva)[…]⟨26⟩[…](saritpa)rvvatasamakālīna Udakātisarggeṇa dharmmadāyo
nisr̥ṣṭo

(yato) […]⟨27⟩[…]mibhadranr̥patibhir asmadvaṅśajair anyaiś ca Anityāny
aiśvaryyāṇy asthiraṁ […]⟨28⟩[…]ś cety

uktañ ca ∥

1. Anuṣṭubh

bahubhir vvasudhā bhuktā rājabhis sagarādibhiḥ
[16+]

⟨29⟩

2. Indravajrā

[16+](yatanīkr̥)tāni
nirbhuktamālyapratimānitāni (ko nāma) [16+]

[…] ⟨30⟩ […](da)nahilene(ti) ∥ saṁ 300 40 3 dvi-Āṣāḍha (b)a […]

## Bibliography

Preserved second plate first edited by D. B. Diskalkar; neither
estampage nor translation (Diskalkar 1925, № 10). 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 10.