# Mandsaur Stone Inscription of the Time of Naravarman

Dániel Balogh

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Language: Sanskrit [Southern Brāhmī (unspecified)]

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## Edition

⟨1⟩ ⟨Fragment A⟩ (si)ddhaM

1. Anuṣṭubh

sahasra-śirase tasm(ai)
puruṣāy(ā)m(i)tātmane
catus-samudra-paryyaṅka-
-toya-nidrālave namaḥ

2. Anuṣṭubh

śrī¿r?-mmālava-gaṇāmnāte
praśaste kr̥ta-sa(ṁ)jñite
⟨2⟩ (E)ka-ṣaṣṭy-adhike prāpte
samā-śata-catuṣṭaye

3. Anuṣṭubh

prāvr̥(ṭ)-kāle śubhe prāpte
manas-tuṣṭi-kare nr̥ṇāM
ma¿gh?⟨h⟩e pravr̥tte śakkrasya
kr̥ṣṇasyānumate tad(ā)

4. Anuṣṭubh

⟨3⟩ niṣpanna-vrīhi-yavasā
kāśa-puṣpair alaṁkr̥tā
bhābhir abhyadhikaṁ bhāti
medinī sasya-mālinī

5. Anuṣṭubh

dine ¿Āśvoja?-śuklasya
paṁcamyām atha satkr̥te
⟨4⟩ Īdr̥k-kāla-vare ramye
praśāsati vasundharāM

6. Anuṣṭubh

prāk-puṇyopacayābhyāsāt
saṁvarddhita-manorathe
jayavarmma-narendrasya
pautre devendra-vikkrame

7. Anuṣṭubh

⟨5⟩ kṣitīś(a)-si¿ṅ?havarmmaṇas
si¿ṅ?ha-vikrānta-gāmini
satputre śrī¿r?-mmahārāja-
-naravarmmaṇi pārtthive

8. Anuṣṭubh

tat-pālana-guṇoddeśād
dharmma-prāpty-arttha-vistaraḥ
⟨6⟩ pūrvva-janmāntarābhyāsād
balād ākṣipta-mānasaḥ

9. Anuṣṭubh

sva-yaśaḥ-puṇya-saṁbhāra-
-vivarddhita-kr̥todyamaḥ
mr̥ga-tr̥ṣṇā-jala-svapna-
-vid(y)ud-d(ī)pa-śikhā-cala(M)

10. Anuṣṭubh

⟨7⟩ jīva-lokam imaṁ jñātvā
śaraṇyaṁ śaraṇaṅ gataḥ
tridaśodāra-phaladaṁ
svargga-strī-cāru-pallavaM

11. Anuṣṭubh

vimānāneka-viṭapaṁ
toyadāṁbu-madhu-sravaM
⟨8⟩ (v)āsudevaṁ jagad-vāsam
aprameyam ajaṁ vibhuM

12. Anuṣṭubh

mitra-bhr̥tyārtta-satkarttā
sva-kulasy¿a?⟨ā⟩tha candramāḥ
yasya vittaṁ ca prāṇāś ca
deva-brāhmaṇasā⟨d⟩ ga(tā)[ḥ]

13. Anuṣṭubh

⟨9⟩ mahā-kāruṇikaḥ satyo
dharmmārjjita-mahādhanaḥ
satputro varṇṇavr̥ddhes tu
satpautro tha jayasya vai

14. Anuṣṭubh

duhitur bbalaśūrāyā⟨ḥ⟩
satputro jayamit(r)a(y)ā
⟨10⟩ ⟨Fragment B⟩ gārggāyaṇa-sagotro vai
jāti(ta)[ḥ] [⏓⏑–⏑⏓]

15. Anuṣṭubh

[⏓⏓⏓⏓⏑––⏓]
[⏓⏓⏓⏓⏑–⏑⏓]
[⏓⏓⏓⏓⏑––⏓]
[⏓⏓⏓⏓⏑–⏑⏓]

16. Anuṣṭubh

⟨11⟩ pure mahati vikhyāte
paṁca-dvig[uṇa-saṁjñake?]
[⏓⏓⏓⏓⏑––⏓]
[⏓⏓⏓⏓⏑–⏑⏓]

17. Anuṣṭubh

[⏓⏓⏓⏓⏑––⏓]
[⏓⏓⏓⏓⏑–⏑⏓]
⟨12⟩ nānā-vr̥kṣa-latā-gulma-
-saṁpra[yukta] [⏑–⏑⏓]

18. Anuṣṭubh

[⏓⏓⏓⏓⏑––⏓]
[⏓⏓⏓⏓⏑–⏑⏓]
[⏓⏓⏓⏓⏑––⏓]
[⏓⏓⏓⏓⏑–⏑⏓]

19. Anuṣṭubh

⟨13⟩ dhanyo (bha)vatu maṅgalyaḥ
pu(tra)[-pautra-samanvitaḥ?]
[⏓⏓⏓⏓⏑––⏓]
[⏓⏓⏓⏓⏑–⏑⏓]

20. Anuṣṭubh

[⏓⏓⏓⏓⏑––⏓]
[⏓⏓⏓⏓⏑–⏑⏓]
⟨14⟩ kr̥ṣṇenāddhy(u)ṣitas tāva(t)
[⏓⏓⏓⏓⏑–⏑⏓]

21. Anuṣṭubh

[⏓⏓⏓⏓⏑––⏓]
[⏓⏓⏓⏓⏑–⏑⏓]
[⏓⏓⏓⏓⏑––⏓]
[⏓⏓⏓⏓⏑–⏑⏓]

## Bibliography

Fragment A first reported in Bhandarkar 1913, pp. 58–59 and Bhandarkar
1913. Discussed in Bhandarkar 1913 and Shastri 1913. Edited in Shastri
1913–1914 (with rubbing made by Bhandarkar). Sircar in SI prints only
the text of this fragment. Fragment B first reported by M. B. Garde in
ARASI 1922–23, p. 187. Edited in Bhandarkar et al. 1981. Summarised in
Trivedi & Trivedi 2001, pp. 28–29 (No. 17). Further discussion in
Bhandarkar 1917, Bose [1942] 1937–1938, pp. 325–327.

Originally encoded for Siddham in the project Beyond Boundaries (Grant
Agreement No. 609823) by Dániel Balogh (2019, № IN00017). 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 14.

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 3.

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 51.

Goyal, Śrīrām. 1993. गुप्तकालीन अभिलेख/Guptakālīna Abhilekha (Inscriptions
of the Gupta Age). Jodhpur: Kusumanjali Prakashan. Items 341-342.