# Mathura Stone Inscription of Candragupta II

Dániel Balogh

Author of digital edition: Dániel Balogh

Identifier: DHARMA_INSSiddham00013

Repository: SIDDHAM (siddham)

File path: XML-Provisional/DHARMA_INSSiddham00013.xml

Language: Sanskrit [Southern Brāhmī (unspecified)]

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## Edition

⟨1⟩ […] [sarvva-rājocchettuḥ pr̥thiv]y[ām apratiratha]⟨2⟩[sya
catur-udadhi-sali]lāsvādita-ya[śaso
dha]⟨3⟩[nada-varuṇendrāntaka-sa]masya kr̥tānta-[paraśoḥ] ⟨4⟩
[nyāyāgatāneka-go]-hiraṇya-koṭi-prada[sya ciro]⟨5⟩[tsannāśvamedhāharttur
mma]hārāja-śrī-gupta-prapau[t]r[asya] ⟨6⟩
[mahārāja-śrī-ghaṭotka]ca-pautrasya mahārājādhir[āja-] ⟨7⟩
[śrī-candragupta-pu]trasya licchavi-dauhitrasya mahā[de]⟨8⟩[vyāṁ
kumāra]d[e]vyām utpannasya mahārājādhirā⟨9⟩[ja-śrī-sa]mudraguptasya
putreṇa tat-parigr̥⟨10⟩[hī]t[e]na mahādev[y]āṁ dat[t]adev[y]ām
ut[p]an[n]e⟨11⟩[na parama-bhāgavatena mahārājādhirāja-śrī-] ⟨12⟩
[candraguptena] […]

## Bibliography

First noticed (in passing) in Cunningham 1871, p. 237. (According to
Fleet 1888, p. 26 [repeated in Bhandarkar et al. 1981, p. 252], the
inscription is also mentioned in Cunningham 1863; they do not, however,
give a page number and this report has no section about Mathurā.)
Discussed, with hand-drawn transcript, in Cunningham 1873, p. 37.
Critically edited in Fleet 1888.

Originally encoded for Siddham in the project Beyond Boundaries (Grant
Agreement No. 609823) by Dániel Balogh (2019, № IN00013). 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 4.

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 10.

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 1542.

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 9.

Goyal, Śrīrām. 1993. गुप्तकालीन अभिलेख/Guptakālīna Abhilekha (Inscriptions
of the Gupta Age). Jodhpur: Kusumanjali Prakashan. Items 124-125.