Damodarpur Charter 1 (GE 124) of Kumāragupta I

Author of digital edition: Dániel Balogh (daba).

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

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⟨1⟩ ¿samva? 100 20 4 phālgu¿ṇ?a di 7 parama-daivata-parama-bhaṭṭāraka-mahārāj(ā)-
⟨2⟩ dhirāja-śrī-kumāragupte pr̥thivī-patau tat-pāda-¿parigr̥hīte? puṇḍravarddha[na]-
⟨3⟩ -¿bhuktād? uparika-cirātada¿t?enānu¿valavānaka?-koṭivarṣa-viṣaye ca ta-
⟨4⟩ n-niyuktaka-kumārāmātya-vetravarmma¿n?y adhiṣṭhā¿ṇ?ādhikaraṇañ ca nagara-śreṣṭhi-
⟨5⟩ -dhr̥tipāla-sārtthavāha-¿v?andhumitra-prathama-kulika-dhr̥timitra-prathama-kā[ya]-
⟨6⟩ stha-śāmbapāla-puroge saṁvyavaharati yataḥ brāhmaṇa-karppaṭike¿ṇ?a
⟨7⟩ vijñāpita(m) a¿ra?hatha mamāgnihotropayogāya Apradāprahata-khi-
⟨8⟩ la-kṣetra(ṁ) traidīnārikya-kulya-vāpe¿ṇ?a śaśvatācandrārkka-tāraka-bhojya⟨ta⟩-

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⟨9⟩ yā nīvī-dharmmeṇa dātum iti⟨.⟩ Evaṁ dīyatām ity utpanne ¿trinī? dīnā[rāṇy u]-
⟨10⟩ pasaṁgr̥hya yataḥ pustapāla-riśidatta-jayanandi-vibhudattānām avadhā-
⟨11⟩ raṇayā ḍoṅgāyā Uttara-¿paściṇaddeśe? kulya-vāpam ekaM dattaM
⟨12⟩ sva-dattāṁ para-dattām ¿b?ā yo hareta vasundharā¿ṁ? bhūmi-(dāna)-saṁ¿v?addhā[ḥ] ślokā bhava(nti)⟨.⟩
⟨13⟩ sa viṣṭhāyāṁ k¿ri?mir bhūtvā pitr̥bhi⟨ḥ⟩ saha ¡pacyate! ¡ti!⟨Iti⟩

Bibliography

First noticed and edited in Basak 1919–1920, pp. 129–132. Discussed in Basak 1925.

Originally encoded for Siddham in the project Beyond Boundaries (Grant Agreement No. 609823) by Dániel Balogh (2019, № IN00026). 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 22.

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 1271.

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 18.

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 27.

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In A3, Bhandarkar corrects to anuvahamānake. I go with Agrawala and do not correct to a locative, compare IN00028.

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The supplied character ya at the end of A5 is not visible at all; I wonder if it was omitted by the scribe, or is in fact at the beginning of A6 - can't tell from the facsimile.

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In A6, the first character of śāmbapāla looks like śu to me, but the facsimile is so poor that I'm just noting this here.

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In A8, Bhandarkar and Agrawala both read bhojye and correct to bhogya (supplying ta to make bhogyatayā). The stroke over jya does not look like an e mātrā to me, so actually bhojyatayā may have been inscribed originally (ta lost to damage at the corner) and looks like an acceptable form that does not need to be corrected to bhogyatayā.

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At the end of B3, the final m-s of ekam and dattam are "expressed by a symbol" (Bhandarkar). I can't really make anything out on the photos of the plate. Marked them up as halanta m-s.

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