# Dhanaidaha Charter of Kumāragupta I

Dániel Balogh

Author of digital edition: Dániel Balogh

Identifier: DHARMA_INSSiddham00023

Repository: SIDDHAM (siddham)

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Language: Sanskrit [Southern Brāhmī (unspecified)]

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## Edition

⟨1⟩ [siddhaM| catur-udadhi-salilāsvāditayaśaso
mahārājādhirāja-śrī-kumāraguptasya?] [sa]mvatsara-śa[te]
trayodaśotta⟨2⟩[re] [ca. 23+]

[asyā]¿n? d(i)vasa-pūrvvāyāṁ
parama-daivata-para⟨3⟩[ma-bhaṭṭāraka-][mahārājādhirāja-śrī-kumāragupte
pr̥thivīpatau?] kuṭu(mbi) [ca. 3+]
brāhmaṇa-śivaśarmma-nāgaśarmma-maha⟨4⟩[ca.
19+]vakīrtti-kṣemadatta-goṣṭhaka-varggapāla-piṅgala-śuṅkuka-kāla⟨5⟩[ca.
20+](pa?)viṣṇu-(deva)śarmma-viṣṇubhadra-khāsaka-rāmaka-gopāla ⟨6⟩ [ca.
18+](sasu?) śrībhadra-somapāla-rāmā(dyāḥ?) grāmāṣṭa-kulādhikaraṇañ
ca⟨7⟩[ca. 15+]viṣṇu(nā?) vijñāpitā Iha khādā(ṭa?)pāra-viṣaye
nuvr̥tta-maryyādā-sthi(ti) ⟨8⟩ [ca. 15+]nīvī-dharmma-kṣayeṇa labhya(te)

(ta)d arhatha mamādyānenaiva kkrame¿n?⟨ṇ⟩a dā(tuṁ) ⟨9⟩ [ca.
14+]samety(ā?)bhihitai(ḥ?) sarvvam eva
(jñā?)kara-prative(śi?)-kuṭumbibhir avasthāpya ka⟨10⟩[ca. 14+]ri [ca.
1×] kana [ca. 1×] yad ito [ca. 2×] (ta)d avadhr̥tam iti yatas tatheti
pratipādya ⟨11⟩ [ca. 11+] [aṣṭaka-na]vaka-nalā(bhyā)m apaviñchya
kṣetra-kulya-vāpam ekaṁ dattaṁ tataḥ Āyuktaka- ⟨12⟩ [ca.
14+](bhrā?)tr̥-kaṭaka-vāstavya-chandoga-brāhmaṇa-varāhasvāmino dattaṁ
taddha(va?)⟨13⟩[ca. 16+]bhūmyā dā(nākṣe)pe ca guṇāguṇam anucintya
śarīra-k(ā)ñcanakasya ci⟨14⟩[ra-cañcalatvaṁ] [ca. 10+] [.]ā

(u)ktañ ca bhagavatā dvaipāyanena

1. Anuṣṭubh

svadattām para-dattām vā
⟨15⟩ [yo hareta vasundharām]
[sa viṣṭhāyāṁ kr̥mir bhūtvā]
[pitr̥](bhiḥ) saha pacyate

2. Anuṣṭubh

ṣaṣṭiṁ varṣa-sahasrā¿n?⟨ṇ⟩i
svargge modati (bhū)midaḥ
⟨16⟩ [Ākṣeptā cānumantā ca]
[tāny eva narake vaset]

3. Anuṣṭubh

(pū)rvva-dattāṁ dvijātibhyo
yatnād rakṣa yudhiṣṭhira
mahīṁ (mahī)[matāñ cchreṣṭha]
⟨17⟩ [dānāc chreyo nupālanam]

[ca. 10+]ya(ṁ) (su?)śrībhadrena Utkīrṇṇaṁ sthambheśvaradāse(na) [ca. 5+]

## Bibliography

First noticed and edited in Bandyopādhyāya 1909, pp. 459–461. Re-edited
in Basak 1923–1924. Discussed in Basak 1925.

Originally encoded for Siddham in the project Beyond Boundaries (Grant
Agreement No. 609823) by Dániel Balogh (2019, № IN00023). Encoding
updated to DHARMA conventions by Dániel Balogh.

### Secondary

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sixth century A.D. 2nd edition revised and enlarged. Calcutta:
University of Calcutta. Book III, item 16.

Agrawala, Prithvi Kumar. 1983. Imperial Gupta Epigraphs
(गुप्ताधिराजलेखमण्डल). Ancient Indian Epigraphical Sources (प्रत्नाभिलेखसंहिता)
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Item 22.

Goyal, Śrīrām. 1993. गुप्तकालीन अभिलेख/Guptakālīna Abhilekha (Inscriptions
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