# Karamdanda Liṅga of the Time of Kumāragupta I

Dániel Balogh

Author of digital edition: Dániel Balogh

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Repository: SIDDHAM (siddham)

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Language: Sanskrit [Southern Brāhmī (unspecified)]

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## Edition

⟨1⟩ namo mahādevāya|

ma(hārājādhirāja-śrī-ca)[ndragupta-pādā]⟨2⟩nudhyātasya
catu¿dhu?⟨r-u⟩dadhi-salilāsvādita-ya[śaso
mahārājā]⟨3⟩dhirāja-śrī-kumāraguptasya vijaya-rājya-saṁvatsara-(śa)[te]
saptadaśo(ttare) ⟨4⟩ kārttika-māsa-daśama-divase syā¿n? divasa-pūrvvāyāṁ
cchand(ogyācāryyā)śvavāji⟨5⟩-sagottra-kuram(ā)ra(v/ṇ)ya-bhaṭṭasya putro
viṣṇupālita-bhaṭṭas tasya putro
mahārā⟨6⟩¿jadhijājā?⟨jādhirāja⟩-śrī-candraguptasya mantrī kumārāmātyaś
śikharasvāmy abhūt tasya putraḥ ⟨7⟩ pr̥thivīṣeṇo
mahārājādhirāja-śrī-kumāraguptasya mantrī kumārāmātyo na⟨8⟩ntaraṁ ca
mahābalādhikr̥taḥ bhagavato mahādevasya pr̥thivīśvara Ity evaṁ
samākhyātasy¿a?⟨ā⟩⟨9⟩syaiva bhagavato yathā-karttavya-dhārmmika-karmmaṇā
pāda-śuśrūṣaṇāya bhagavac-chai⟨10⟩leśvara-svāmi-mahādeva-pāda-mūle
Āyodhyaka-nānā-gottra-caraṇa-tapaḥ⟨11⟩-svādh[y]āya-[mantra-sū?]t[r]a-bhāṣ(ya)-(p?)[ravacana-pāraga?]
[2×] [.]i [1×] (s)[.](s)[.]d[.] d(e)vad(r)oṇ[y](āṁ)

## Bibliography

First noticed in 1908 by Kunwar Kamta Prasad, Collector of Faizabad
(says Bhandarkar et al. 1981, p. 280 and Konow 1909–1910, p. 70 - but
neither gives any reference to a publication). Summary of contents in
Vogel 1908, p. 23, 39. First edited in Bandyopādhyāya 1909, pp. 457–459,
re-edited in Konow 1909–1910.

Originally encoded for Siddham in the project Beyond Boundaries (Grant
Agreement No. 609823) by Dániel Balogh (2019, № IN00025). Encoding
updated to DHARMA conventions by Dániel Balogh.

### Secondary

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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 17.

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 25.

Goyal, Śrīrām. 1993. गुप्तकालीन अभिलेख/Guptakālīna Abhilekha (Inscriptions
of the Gupta Age). Jodhpur: Kusumanjali Prakashan. Items 162-165.