# Nalanda Grant of Samudragupta

Dániel Balogh

Author of digital edition: Dániel Balogh

Identifier: DHARMA_INSSiddham00003

Repository: SIDDHAM (siddham)

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Language: Sanskrit [Southern Brāhmī (unspecified)]

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## Edition

⟨01⟩ *

⟨1⟩ svast[i]⟨.⟩ mahā-nau-hasty-aśva-jaya-skandhāvārānandapura-vāsakāt
(sar)vvarā(joc)ch(e)ttu⟨ḫ⟩ pr̥thivyām apratirathasya
catur-udadhi-sali(l)ā(s)vā⟨2⟩dita-yaśaso
dhanada-varuṇendrānta⟨ka⟩-samasya kr̥tānta-paraśor
nyāyāgatāneka-go-hiraṇya-koṭi-pradasya cirotsa(nn)ā⟨3⟩śvamedhāharttur
mmahārāja-śrī-gu⟨pta⟩-prapauttrasya mahārāja-śrī-ghaṭotkaca-pauttrasya
mahārā(jādhi)rāja-(śrī-candragupta)-puttra⟨4⟩sya licchavi-dauhittrasya
mahādevyāṅ kumāradevyām utpannaḫ parama-bhāgava(to
mahā)[rājādh](i)[rāja]-śrī-(samu)[dragu]ptaḥ
vāvi(r)i(k)ṣya(ra)⟨5⟩-vaiṣay(i)ka-bhadrapuṣkaraka-grāma-kri(vilā)-vaiṣayika-(pūrṇṇanā)ga-grā(mayoḥ
brāhmaṇa-puroga)-grā(ma)-valatkoṣābhyām āha

⟨6⟩ Eva(ṁ) cāha⟨.⟩ viditam bo bhavatv eṣau grā(m)au (mayā mā)tā-pittror
ātmana(ś ca puṇyābhivr̥ddha)ye jayabhaṭṭi-svāmine ⟨7⟩ [ca. 4+][ca. 14×]
(sopari)karo(ddeśenāgrahāratvenātisr̥ṣ)ṭaḥ tad yuṣmābhir asya ⟨8⟩
ttr(ai)vidyasya śro(ttr)avyam ājñā ca karttavyā (sarvve ca samu)citā
grā⟨ma⟩-pratyā(yāmeyā) hira(ṇ)yādayo deyā na ¿caitā?⟨ceta⟩ḫ
pra⟨9⟩(bhr̥)ty anena ttraividyenānya-grāmādi-karada-kuṭumbi-kā(rukāda)yaḫ
praveśayi(ta)vyā (A)nyathā niyatam āgrahārā(kṣepaḥ) ⟨10⟩ (sy)ād iti*

_____ sambat 5 _ māgha di 2 _ ni(b/v)addha(ḥ/M) ⟨11⟩
Anugrāmākṣapaṭalādhikr̥ta-mahāpīlūpati-mahāvalādhikr̥ta
gopasvām⟨y⟩-ādeśa-likhitaḥ ⟨12⟩ [dūtaḥ?] [ku](mā?)ra-śrī-candraguptaḥ

## Bibliography

First reported by Hirananda Sastri in ARASI 1927–28, p. 138; first
edited in Ghosh [1940–1948] 1939–1940. Discussed and pronounced spurious
in Sircar 1941–1942. Genuineness discussed in Goyal 1993, pp. 72–76.

Originally encoded for Siddham in the project Beyond Boundaries (Grant
Agreement No. 609823) by Dániel Balogh (2019, № IN00003). Encoding
updated to DHARMA conventions by Dániel Balogh.

### Secondary

Bhandarkar, Devadatta Ramakrishna, Bahadur Chand Chhabra & Govind
Swamirao Gai. 1981. Inscriptions of the early Gupta kings. Corpus
inscriptionum indicarum 3, revised edition. New Delhi: Archaeological
survey of India. Item 3.

Bhandarkar, Devadatta Ramakrishna. 1927–1936. A list of the inscriptions
of northern India in Brahmi and its derivative scripts, from about 200
A. C.: Appendix to Epigraphia Indica and record of the Archaeological
Survey of India, volumes XIX to XXIII. Calcutta: Archaeological Survey
of India. [URL]. Item 2075.

Sircar, Dines Chandra. 1965. Select inscriptions bearing on Indian
history and civilization. Volume I: from the sixth century B.C. to the
sixth century A.D. 2nd edition revised and enlarged. Calcutta:
University of Calcutta. Book III, item 4.

Agrawala, Prithvi Kumar. 1983. Imperial Gupta Epigraphs
(गुप्ताधिराजलेखमण्डल). Ancient Indian Epigraphical Sources (प्रत्नाभिलेखसंहिता)
10, pt. 1 / 2. Varanasi: Books Asia, Distributed by Prithvi Prakashan.
Item 3.

Goyal, Śrīrām. 1993. गुप्तकालीन अभिलेख/Guptakālīna Abhilekha (Inscriptions
of the Gupta Age). Jodhpur: Kusumanjali Prakashan. Items 62-67.