# Vidisha Inscription of Rāmagupta on the Image of Candraprabha

Dániel Balogh

Author of digital edition: Dániel Balogh

Identifier: DHARMA_INSSiddham00005

Repository: SIDDHAM (siddham)

File path: XML-Provisional/DHARMA_INSSiddham00005.xml

Language: Sanskrit [Southern Brāhmī (unspecified)]

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## Edition

⟨1⟩ bhagavato rhataḥ candraprabhasya pratimeyaṁ kāritā
ma⟨2⟩hārājādhirāja-śrī-rāmaguptena Upadeśāt
pāṇipā⟨3⟩trika-candrakṣamācāryya-kṣamana-śramaṇa-praśiṣya-Ācā⟨4⟩ryya-sarppasena-kṣamaṇa-śiṣyasya
golakyāntyā-satputtrasya celū-kṣamaṇasyeti||

## Bibliography

The discovery of the images was reported in The Hindustan Times on 18
March 1969. The inscriptions were edited in Gai 1969–1970. Imagery
analysed in Agrawala 1969. Re-edited in Gai 1969–1970. Summarised in
Trivedi & Trivedi 2001, pp. 13–14 (No. 3). Discussed in: Shah 1969,
Sircar 1970, Mirashi 1977, Willis 2009, p. 231; Bakker 2010, p. 463;
Dundas 2014, pp. 231–232.

Originally encoded for Siddham in the project Beyond Boundaries (Grant
Agreement No. 609823) by Dániel Balogh (2019, № IN00005). 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 5.

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 5.

Goyal, Śrīrām. 1993. गुप्तकालीन अभिलेख/Guptakālīna Abhilekha (Inscriptions
of the Gupta Age). Jodhpur: Kusumanjali Prakashan. Items 93-98.