# Mathura Lakulīśa Pilaster Inscription

Dániel Balogh

Alternative title: Mathura Pilaster Inscription of Chandragupta II, Year
61

Author of digital edition: Dániel Balogh

Identifier: DHARMA_INSSiddham00008

Repository: SIDDHAM (siddham)

File path: XML-Provisional/DHARMA_INSSiddham00008.xml

Language: Sanskrit [Southern Brāhmī (unspecified)]

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## Edition

⟨1⟩ siddhaM⟨.⟩ bhaṭṭāraka-mahārāja-(rājādhi)rāja
śrī-samudragupta-sa⟨2⟩(tpu)trasya
bhaṭṭāraka-ma[hā](r)[āja-rā]j[ādhi]rāja-śrī-candragupta⟨3⟩sya
vija⟨ya⟩-rājya-saṁvatsa[re paṁ](came) [5×]
kālānuvarttamāna-saṁ⟨4⟩vatsare Ekaṣaṣṭhe 60 1 [ca. 4×] [pra]thame
śukladivase paṁ⟨5⟩camyāṁ

asyāṁ pūrvvā(yāṁ bha)ga(vat-ku)śikād daśamena bhagava⟨6⟩t-parāśarāc
caturthena (bhagavat-ka)p(ila)-vimala-śi⟨7⟩ṣya-śiṣyeṇa
bhagavad-(upamita)-vimala-śiṣyeṇa ⟨8⟩ Āryyodi(tā)cāryye(ṇa
sva)-pu(ṇyā)pyāyana-nimittaṁ ⟨9⟩ gurūṇāṁ ca kīr¿t?y-a(rttham
upamiteśva)ra-kapileśvarau ⟨10⟩ gurvv-āyatane guru [ca. 4×]
pratiṣṭhāpit¿o?⟨au⟩

nai ⟨11⟩ tat khyāty-arttham abhili(kh)ya(te Atha) m(ā)heśvarāṇāṁ
vi⟨12⟩jñaptiẖ kriyate sambodhanaṁ ca yathā-kā(le)nācāryyā⟨13⟩ṇāṁ
parigraham iti matvā viśaṅka(ṁ)pūjā-pura⟨14⟩skāra(ṁ)
parigraha-pāripālyaṁ kuryyād iti vijñaptir iti ⟨15⟩ yaś ca
kīrty-abhidrohaṁ kuryy(ā)d yaś cābhilikhitam uparyy adho ⟨16⟩ vā sa
paṁcabhir maha(ā)-pātakair upapātakaiś ca saṁyuktas syāt

⟨17⟩ jayati ca bhagavā(ṇ ḍaṇḍaḥ) rudra-daṇḍo gra-(nā)yako nitya(ṁ)

## Bibliography

First edited and discussed in Bhandarkar 1931–1932. Further discussion
in Srinivasan 1970.

Originally encoded for Siddham in the project Beyond Boundaries (Grant
Agreement No. 609823) by Dániel Balogh (2019, № IN00008). 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 6.

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 9.

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 8.

Goyal, Śrīrām. 1993. गुप्तकालीन अभिलेख/Guptakālīna Abhilekha (Inscriptions
of the Gupta Age). Jodhpur: Kusumanjali Prakashan. Items 99-105.