# Udayagiri Cave 6 Inscription of the Time of Candragupta II

Dániel Balogh

Alternative title: Udayagiri Cave Inscription of Chandragupta II, Year
82

Author of digital edition: Dániel Balogh

Identifier: DHARMA_INSSiddham00009

Repository: SIDDHAM (siddham)

File path: XML-Provisional/DHARMA_INSSiddham00009.xml

Language: Sanskrit [Southern Brāhmī (unspecified)]

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## Edition

⟨1⟩ siddhaM|| saṁvatsare 80 2 Āṣāḍha-māsa-śukl¿e?kādaśyāM
parama-bhaṭṭāraka-¿mahārājādhi?-śrī-candra(g)upta-pādānuddhyātasya| ⟨2⟩
mahārāja-chagalaga-pautrasya mahārāja-viṣṇudāsa-putrasya sanakānikasya
mahā[rāja]-[ca. 1×](ḍha?)la(syāyaṁ de)(ya?)-(dha)[r]m(ma)ḥ|

## Bibliography

First noticed (with text, translation and eye copy) in Cunningham 1854,
pp. 150–152. E. Thomas gives his own reading and a translation “approved
of by Prof. Wilson” in Prinsep & Thomas 1858, pp. 246–247, n. 4. Revised
(with new facsimile) in Cunningham 1880, p. 50. First critical edition
in Fleet 1888. Summarised in Trivedi & Trivedi 2001, p. 18 (No. 2).
Discussed in: Willis 2009, pp. 57–58.

Originally encoded for Siddham in the project Beyond Boundaries (Grant
Agreement No. 609823) by Dániel Balogh (2019, № IN00009). Encoding
updated to DHARMA conventions by Dániel Balogh.

### Secondary

Fleet, John Faithfull. 1888. Inscriptions of the early Gupta kings and
their successors. First edition. Vol. 3. Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum.
Calcutta: Superintendent of Government Printing. Item 3.

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 7.

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 1260.

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 10.

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 10.

Goyal, Śrīrām. 1993. गुप्तकालीन अभिलेख/Guptakālīna Abhilekha (Inscriptions
of the Gupta Age). Jodhpur: Kusumanjali Prakashan. Items 106-108.