Gaya Grant of Samudragupta

Author of digital edition: Dániel Balogh (daba).

Contributor: Dániel Balogh (daba).

Language: Sanskrit (san) [Southern Brāhmī (other) (brāhmī_southern_other)].

Repository: Siddham (siddham).

Identifier: DHARMA_INSSiddham00004.

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Version: 2026-07-17 15:30 (3e68bda), last modified 2026-07-17 15:30 (3e68bda).

Edition

Seal

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⟨5⟩ […] sam(u)drag(u)p(taḥ)

Plates

⟨1⟩ *svasti mahā-nau-hasty-aśva-jaya-skandhāvārā¿jā?yoddhyā-vāsakāt-sarvva-rājocchettu⟨ḥ⟩ pr̥-
⟨2⟩ thivyām apratirathasya catur-udadhi-salilāsvādita-yaśa⟨so⟩dhanada-varuṇendrā-
⟨3⟩ ntaka-samasya kr̥tānta-paraśor nyāyāgatāneka-go-hiraṇya-koṭi-pradasya ciroccha-
⟨4⟩ nnāśvamedhāharttu⟨ḥ⟩ mahārāja-śrī-gupta-prapauttrasya mahārāja-śrī-ghaṭotkaca-pauttrasya
⟨5⟩ mahārājādhirāja-śrī-candragupta-puttrasya licchivi-dauhittrasya mahāde-vyā[ṁ] ku-
⟨6⟩ māradevyām utpanna⟨ḥ⟩ parama-bhāgavato mahārājādhirāja-śrī-samudra-
⟨7⟩ guptaḥ gayā-vaiṣayika-revatikā-grāme vrāhmaṇa-puroga-grāma-vala-
⟨8⟩ tkauṣabhyām āha(|) eva cārtha[ṁ] viditam bo bhavatv e¿ś?a grāmo mayā mātā-pittror ā-
⟨9⟩ tmanaś ca puṇyābhivr̥ddhaye bhāradvāja-sagotrāya vahvr̥cāya sa(vra)hmacā-
⟨10⟩ riṇe vrāhmaṇa-gomadevasvāmine soparikaroddeśenāgrahāratvenāti-
⟨11⟩ sr̥ṣṭaḥ tad yuṣmābhir asya śrotavyam ājñā ca karttavyā sarvve ca samucitā grāma-pra-
⟨12⟩ tyayāmeya-hiraṇyādayo deyāḥ na ¿cetat?-prabhr̥ty etad-āgrahārikeṇ¿a?nyad-grā-
⟨13⟩ mādi-karada-kuṭumbi-kārukādayaḥ praveśayitavyā ¿ma?nyathā niyatam āgra-
⟨14⟩ hārākṣepa[ḥ] syād iti sambaT 9 vaiśākha di 10
⟨15⟩ Anya-grāmākṣapaṭalādhikr̥ta-dyūta-gopasvāmy-ādeśa-likhitaḥ

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The seal inscription is "so worn out, that nothing of it can be read except a few disconnected letters here and there, and Sam(u)drag(u)p(taḥ), very faintly, at the end of line 5" (Bhandarkar 1981:229). Bhandarkar supposes the legend would have been a succinct genealogy.

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The mangala symbol is different from that on the Nalanda plate, resembling an L with a curved bottom. The symbol is not even mentioned, just transcribed as oṁ by Bhandarkar. Sircar says it's siddham.

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°āvārāj On the plate the letter is quite damaged, but to me does not look at all like the ja in jayaskandhā°. If indeed ja, is this perhaps an indication that the town name was also changed by the man who copied the plate?

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according to Bhandarkar's translation, bahvr̥ca is a śākhā, and so he takes savrahmacārin as the king's (?) "religious fellow-student".

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Bhandarkar reads gopadeva, his editor's note (p230n13) says the reading is gomadeva. I concur.

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Bhandarkar prints s-oparika-oddeśen°, but this is clearly a typo, the character ro is there.

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Both Bhandarkar and Lielukhine print a space before meya, but to me this seems like āmeya in cpd with the previous and qualifying hiraṇyādayo. Pratyaya is, really pratyaya, not pratyāya as in Nalanda plate.

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I'm pretty sure it's anyaṅgrāma rather than anyadgrāma in fact, which may result from a copying of anyagrāma with an accidental dot over the nya read by the forger as an anusvāra.

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