# Mathura Buddha Image Inscription of the Time of Kumāragupta I

Dániel Balogh

Author of digital edition: Dániel Balogh

Identifier: DHARMA_INSSiddham00027

Repository: SIDDHAM (siddham)

File path: XML-Provisional/DHARMA_INSSiddham00027.xml

Language: Sanskrit [Southern Brāhmī (unspecified)]

Commit: 2026-09-16 10:40 (3083d2d), last modified 2026-09-16 09:24
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## Edition

⟨1⟩ […] śr[ī]-kumāraguptasya v[i]ja(ya)r(ā)jyasa[ṁ]vva(t) 100 20 (5)
(ā)śvayuja-māse di 9| Asy(āṁ) divasa-pū(rv)v(ā)y(āṁ) māthura(s)ya ⟨2⟩
[…] [ku?]māradāsa-(bha)ṭṭa-vijñāyamānasya⟨.⟩_ yad a(tra) puṇyaṁ tad
bhavatu mātā-pitroḥ sarvva-sa¿tv?ānāṁ cānuttara ⟨3⟩ […]

## Bibliography

First noticed in ARIE 1965–66, p. 112 (B. 677). First edited in
Srivastava 1967–1968, pp. 153–154.

Originally encoded for Siddham in the project Beyond Boundaries (Grant
Agreement No. 609823) by Dániel Balogh (2019, № IN00027). 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 23.

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 26.

Tsukamoto Keishō 塚本啓祥. 1996. インド仏教碑銘の研究 I, Text, Note,
和訳 Indo Bukkyō himei no kenkyū I: Text, Note, Wayaku [A comprehensive
study of the Indian Buddhist inscriptions, Part I: Text, Notes and
Japanese Translation]. Kyōto-shi 京都市: Heirakuji Shoten 平楽寺書店.
Item IV. Mathurā 60.

Goyal, Śrīrām. 1993. गुप्तकालीन अभिलेख/Guptakālīna Abhilekha (Inscriptions
of the Gupta Age). Jodhpur: Kusumanjali Prakashan. Item 128.