# Allahabad Praśasti of Samudragupta

Dániel Balogh

Author of digital edition: Dániel Balogh

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Language: Sanskrit [Southern Brāhmī (unspecified)]

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## Edition

⟨1⟩ (yaḥ?) (kulyaiḥ svai) [ca. 1×] [.]ātasa […] ⟨2⟩ (yasya) […] ⟨3⟩ [ca.
1×] (puṁva) […] (tra?) […] ⟨4⟩ [ca. 1×]sph(u/ā)ra(dvaṁ) [6×] (kṣaḥ
sphu?)(ṭod)(dhvaṁs?)ita [ca. 3×] (p)ra(v)i(ta)ta […]

1. Sragdharā

⟨5⟩ yasya (prajñānu?)(ṣa)ṅg(o)cita-sukha-manasaḥ
śāstra-tattvārttha-bharttuḥ
[––] stabdho [⏑––] (ha?)(ni) [⏑⏑⏑⏑–] (nocchr̥?) [––⏑–⏓]
⟨6⟩ [sa?](t?)-(kā)vya-śrī-vir¿au?⟨o⟩dhān budha-guṇita-guṇājñāhatān eva
kr̥tvā
vidval-loke ⟨’⟩vi[nāśi?] s(phu)ṭa-bahu-kavitā-kīrtti rājya(ṁ) bhunakti

2. Śārdūlavikrīḍita

⟨7⟩ [ā?](ry)y[ai?](h)īty upaguhya bhāva-piśunair utkarṇṇitai romabhiḥ
sabhyeṣūcchvasiteṣu tulya-kula-ja-m(l)ānānanodvī(kṣi)[ta](ḥ)
⟨8⟩ sn(e)ha-vyāluḷitena bāṣpa-guruṇā tattvekṣiṇā cakṣuṣā
yaḥ pitrābhihito nirīk(ṣya) nikhi[lāṁ] (pāhy evam?) [u]rv[v]īm i(t)i

3. Sragdharā

⟨9⟩ [dr̥]ṣṭvā karmmāṇy anekāny amanuja-sadr̥śāny a(dbhu)todbhinna-harṣā
bh[ā]vair ās(v)āda(ya)[ntaḥ?] [⏑⏑⏑⏑⏑⏑––⏑––⏑] [ke]ciT
⟨10⟩ vīryyottaptāś ca kecic charaṇam upagatā yasya vr̥tte praṇāme
⟨’⟩py a(rtti?)[.][–] [–⏑––⏑⏑⏑⏑⏑⏑––⏑––⏑–⏓]

4. Mandākrāntā

⟨11⟩ saṁgrāmeṣu sva-bhuja-vijitā nityam uccāpakārāḥ
śvaḥ śvo māna-pra [⏑⏑⏑⏑––⏑––⏑–⏓]
⟨12⟩ to(ṣ)ottuṅgaiḥ sphuṭa-bahu-rasa-sneha-phullair mmanobhiḥ
paścāttāpaṁ va [⏑⏑⏑⏑––⏑] (masya) (dviṣantaḥ?)

5. Śārdūlavikrīḍita

⟨13⟩ Udvelodita-bāhu-vīryya-rabhasād ekena yena kṣaṇād
unmūlyācyuta-nāgasena-g[⏑⏑–––⏑––⏑⏓]
⟨14⟩ daṇḍair grāhayataiva kota-kulajaṁ puṣpāhvaye krīḍatā
(sūryye)(ne?) [⏑⏑–⏑–] (taṭa) [⏑–––⏑––⏑⏓]

6. Sragdharā

⟨15⟩ dha(rmma)-prācīra-bandhaḥ śaśi-kara-śucayaḥ kīrttayaḥ sapratānā
vaiduṣyaṁ tattva-bhedi praśama [⏑⏑] [.](uku?) [.](y?) [–⏑] (mut?)[.]
[–⏑] tā(rttham)
⟨16⟩ [a?](ddhye)(yaḥ sūkta-?)mārggaḥ kavi-mati-vibhavotsāraṇaṁ cāpi
kāvyaṁ
ko nu syā(d) yo (s)ya na syā(d guṇa I)ti v(i)duṣāṁ dhyāna-pātraṁ ya Ekaḥ

⟨17⟩ tasya vividha-samara-śatāvataraṇa-dakṣasya
sva-bhuja-bala-parākkramaika-bandhoḥ parākkramāṅkasya
paraśu-śara-śaṅku-śakti-prās-āsi-tomara- ⟨18⟩
(bh)ind(i)pāla-n[ā]rāca-vaitastikādy-aneka-praharaṇa-virūḍhākula-vraṇa-śatāṅka-śobhā-samudayopacita-kāntatara-varṣmaṇaḥ
⟨19⟩
kausalaka-mahendra-māh[ā]kāntāraka-vyāghrarāja-kaurāḷaka-maṇṭarāja-paiṣṭapuraka-mahendragiri-kauṭṭūraka-svāmidatt-airaṇḍapallaka-damana-kañceyaka-viṣṇugopāvamuktaka-
⟨20⟩
nīlarāja-vaiṅgeyaka-hastivarmma-pālakkakograsena-daivarāṣṭraka-kubera-kausthalapuraka-dhanañjaya-prabhr̥ti-sarvva-dakṣiṇāpatha-rāja-grahaṇa-mokṣānugraha-janita-pratāponmiśra-māhābhāgyasya
⟨21⟩
rudradeva-matila-nāgadatta-candravarmma-gaṇapatināga-nāgasen-ācyutanandi-balavarmmādy-anekāryyāvartta-rāja-prasabhoddharaṇodvr̥tta-prabhāva-mahataḥ
paricārakīkr̥ta-sarvvāṭavika-rājasya ⟨22⟩
samataṭa-ḍavāka-kāmarūpa-nepāla-karttr̥purādi-pratyanta-nr̥patibhir
mmālavārjunāyana-yaudheya-mādrakābhīra-prārjuna-sanakānīka-kāka-kharaparikādibhiś
ca sarvva-kara-dānājñā-karaṇa-praṇāmāgamana- ⟨23⟩
paritoṣita-pracaṇḍa-śāsanasya _
Aneka-bhraṣṭa-rājyotsanna-rāja-vaṁśa-pratiṣṭhāpanodbhūta-nikhila-bh(uva)na-vi(cara)ṇa-(śr)ānta-yaśasaḥ
daivaputra-ṣāhi-ṣāhānuṣāhi-śaka-muruṇḍaih saimhaḷakādibhiś ca ⟨24⟩
sarvva-dvīpa-vāsibhir
ātma-nivedana-kanyopāyana-dāna-garutmad-aṅka-svaviṣaya-bhukti-śāsa(na-y)ācanādy-upāya-sevā-kr̥ta-bāhu-vīryya-prasara-dharaṇi-bandhasya
p¿ri?thivyām apratirathasya ⟨25⟩
sucarita-śatālaṅkr̥tāneka-guṇa-gaṇotsiktibhiś
caraṇa-taḷa-pramr̥ṣṭānya-narapati-kīrtteḥ
sāddhv-asādhūdaya-pralaya-hetu-puruṣasyācintyasya
bhakty-avanati-mātra-grāhya-mr̥du-hr̥dayasyānukampāvato
⟨’⟩neka-go-śata-sahasra-pradāyina(ḥ) ⟨26⟩
k(r̥)paṇa-dīnānāthātura-janoddharaṇa-sa(t)tra-dīkṣā(bh)y-upaga(ta)-manasaḥ
samiddhasya vigrahavato lokānugrahasya dhanada-varuṇendrāntaka-samasya
sva-bhuja-bala-vijitāneka-narapati-vibhava-pratyarppaṇā-nitya-vyāpr̥tāyukta-puruṣasya
⟨27⟩ niśita-vidagdha-mati-gāndharvva-laḷitair
vrīḍita-tridaśapatiguru-tumburu-nāradāder
vvidvaj-janopa(j)īvyāneka-kāvya-kkriyābhiḥ pratiṣṭhita-kavirāja-śabdasya
sucira-stotavyānekādbhutodāra-caritasya ⟨28⟩
l(au)ka-samaya-kkriyānuvidhāna-mātra-mānuṣasya loka-dhāmno devasya
mahārāja-śrī-gupta-prapautrasya mahārāja-śrī-ghaṭotkaca-pautrasya
mahārājādhirāja-śrī-candragupta-putrasya ⟨29⟩ licchavi-dauhitrasya
mahādevyāṁ kumāradevyām ut¿ph?⟨p⟩annasya
mahārājādhirāja-śrī-samudraguptasya
sarvva-pr̥thivī-vijaya-janitodaya-vyāpta-nikhilāvanitalāṁ kīrttim itas
tridaśa-pati⟨30⟩-bhavana-gamanāvāpta-laḷita-sukha-vicaraṇām ācakṣāṇa Iva
bhuvo bāhur ayam ucchritaḥ stambhaḥ

yasya|

7. Pr̥thvī

pradāna-bhuja-vikkrama-praśama-śāstra-vākyodayair
uparyyupari-sañcayocchritam aneka-mārggaṁ yaśaḥ
⟨31⟩ punāti bhuvana-trayaṁ paśupater jjaṭānta¿r-gu?hā-
-nirodha-parimokṣa-śīghram iva pāṇḍu gāṅgaṁ [payaḥ?]

etac ca kāvyam eṣām eva bhaṭṭāraka-pādānāṁ dāsasya
samīpa-parisarppaṇānugrahonmīlita-mateḥ ⟨32⟩ khādyaṭapākikasya
mahā-daṇḍanāyaka-dhruvabhūti-putrasya
sāndhivigrahika-kumārāmātya-ma[hā-daṇḍanāya]ka-hariṣeṇasya
sarvva-bhūta-hita-sukhāyāstu||

⟨33⟩ Anuṣṭhitaṁ ca parama-bhaṭṭāraka-pādānudhyātena
mahā-daṇḍanāyaka-tilabhaṭṭakena|

## Bibliography

First notice with lithograph, translation (by A. Troyer) and transcript
(by Pt. Madhav Rao) in Burt 1834 (Bhandarkar 1927–1936, p. 212 says this
text and translation was commenced by a brother of Lieutenant T. S.
Burt, finished by a Munshi, revised by Burt and ultimately reduced by
Prinsep). Improved transcript in Mill 1834, rudimentary genealogy in
Mill 1834. New lithograph (by Edward Smith) and improved transcript and
translation in Prinsep 1837 (translation republished in Prinsep & Thomas
1858, p. 233). Further improvement in a paper presented to the Royal
Asiatic Society of Bombay in 1970 by Bhau Daji (apparently never
published); also Bhau Daji 1872. Re-edited with more improvements in
Fleet 1888. Revised yet again in Bühler 1890, pp. 88–91 and discussed
ibid:31-45. Further discussion: Sharma 1956.

Originally encoded for Siddham in the project Beyond Boundaries (Grant
Agreement No. 609823) by Dániel Balogh (2019, № IN00001). Encoding
updated to DHARMA conventions by Dániel Balogh.

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