Kahaum Pillar Inscription of the Time of Skandagupta Dániel Balogh European Research Council (ERC), grant agreement no 809994 DHARMA Berlin DHARMA_INSSiddham00034.xml CC BY-SA 4.0 2019-2026 DHARMAbase

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Additional global changes for compatibility with DHARMA Updating toward the encoding template v03 Initial import: harmonising file structure with DHARMA inscription template v02. Text and comments as inherited from the Siddham archive of January 2019, unless otherwise indicated (by a name and date in the comment). Comments are offered "as is" and do not represent a thoroughly considered or researched opinion.
siddhaṁ yasyopasthāna-bhūmir nr̥pati-śata-śiraḥ-pāta-vāt-āvadhūtā guptānāṁ vanśa-jasya pravisr̥ta-yaśasas tasya sarvvottamarddheḥ rājye śakropamasya kṣitipa-śata-pateḥ skandaguptasya śānte varṣe ttrinśad-daśaikottaraka-śatatame jyeṣṭha-māsi prapanne| khyāte smin grāma-ratne kakubha Iti janais sādhu-saṁsarga-pūte| puttro yas somilasya pracura-guṇa-nidher bhaṭṭisomo mahātmā tat-sūnū rudrasomaḥ pr̥thula-mati-yaśā vyāghra Ity anya-saṁjño| madras tasyātmajo bhūd dvija-guru-yatiṣu prāyaśaḥ prītimān yaḥ| puṇya-skandhaṁ sa cakkre jagad idam akhilaṁ saṁsarad vīkṣya bhīto śreyortthaṁ bhūta-bhūtyai pathi niyamavatām arhatām ādi-karttr̥r̥̄N pañcendrāṁn sthāpayitvā dharaṇidhara-mayān sannikhātas tato yaM śaila-stambhaḥ sucārur giri-vara-śikharāgropamaḥ kīrtti-karttā

First noticed by Montgomery Martin in 1838 (re-published as 366-367) in a compilation of Francis Hamilton Buchanan’s reports; Buchanan’s original report on the Bengal Presidency was completed in 1816 according to 152). Also reported in 33-34. Transliterated and translated in (translation reprinted in 250). First verse revised and translated in 53024; revised again in 31. Also described in 91-94. Edited (with new facsimile) in Indraji_Burgess1881. Re-edited in . Discussed in .

Originally encoded for Siddham in the project Beyond Boundaries (Grant Agreement No. 609823) by Dániel Balogh (IN00034). Encoding updated to DHARMA conventions by Dániel Balogh.

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