Gadhwa Donation 1 of the Time of Candragupta II

Author of digital edition: Dániel Balogh (daba).

Language: Sanskrit (san) [Southern Brāhmī (unspecified) (brāhmī_southern_unspecified)].

Repository: SIDDHAM (siddham).

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⟨1⟩ [parama-bhāgavata-mahārājādhirāja-śrī-candragupta-rājya?]
⟨2⟩ [saṁvvatsare?] […] [asyāṁ]
⟨3⟩ divasa-pūrvvāyāṁ […]-
⟨4⟩ ka-mātr̥dāsa-(pra)[mukha?] […] [puṇyā]-
⟨5⟩ pyāyanārtthaṁ raci(ta) […] [sa]-
⟨6⟩ dā-sa¿t?ra-sāmā¿ṇ?ya-brā(hma)[ṇa] […]
⟨7⟩ dīnārair ddaśabhiḥ 10 […]
⟨8⟩ yaś cainaṁ dharmma-skandaṁ [vyucchindyāt sa pañca-mahā-pātakaiḥ saṁ]
⟨9⟩ (y)yukta⟨ḥ⟩ syād iti|

Bibliography

First reported (with text and eye copy) in Cunningham 1873, pp. 54–56. First edited in Fleet 1888.

Originally encoded for Siddham in the project Beyond Boundaries (Grant Agreement No. 609823) by Dániel Balogh (2019, № IN00010). 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 7.

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 8.

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 1261.

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 12.

Goyal, Śrīrām. 1993. गुप्तकालीन अभिलेख/Guptakālīna Abhilekha (Inscriptions of the Gupta Age). Jodhpur: Kusumanjali Prakashan. Items 109-111.

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(pra)[*?mukha] is from Lielukhine (Sircar?); Bhandarkar (p245) prints pu(t)ra here, but translates (p246) "the Chief (of the Householders)" and explains (p246n2) that he wants to restore "pra" to Prathama and connect it to [*gr̥]hasthasya in l9 of the second inscription IN00011.

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satra is clearly spelt with a single t (unlike l6 of IN00011, where the t is doubled). Bhandarkar supplies an asterisked second t here but I for the time being do not do orthographic standardisations.

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dharmma-skanda is corrected by Bhandarkar to dharmma-skandha, p247n2 speculates on the possible meaning of the word. Compare also puṇyaskandha in the Kahaum inscription of Skgupta, IN00034. The character nda is quite unclear here, but much better in l8 of IN00011.

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