Indor Charter of the Time of Skandagupta

Author of digital edition: Dániel Balogh (daba).

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

Repository: SIDDHAM (siddham).

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⟨1⟩ siddhaM yaṁ viprā vidhivat prabuddha-manaso ¿dhyānaikatānāstuvaḥ? yasyāntaṁ tridaśāsurā na vividur nnordhvaṁ na tirya-
⟨2⟩ g-gati(m?) yaṁ loko bahu-roga-vega-vivaśaḥ saṁśritya ceto-labhaḥ pāyād vaḥ sa jagat-pi¿th?āna-puṭa-bhid raśmy-ā-
⟨3⟩ karo bhāskaraḥ|| parama-bhaṭṭāraka mahārājādhirāja-śrī-skandaguptasyābhivarddhamāna-vijaya-rājya-saṁvvatsara-śate ṣa¿c?-catvā-
⟨4⟩ [ri]¿n?śad-uttaratame phālguna-māse tat-p[ā]da-parigr̥hītasya viṣayapati-śarvvanāgasyāntarvvedyāṁ bhogābhivr̥ddhaye vartta-
⟨5⟩ māne cendrāpuraka-padmā-cāturvvidya-sāmānya-brāhmaṇa-devaviṣṇur ddeva-putro haritrāta-pauttraḥ ḍuḍika-prapauttraḥ satatāgniho-
⟨6⟩ tra-¿ch?andogo rāṇāya¿ṇ?īyo varṣagaṇa-sagottra Indrāpuraka-vaṇigbhyāṁ kṣattriy-ācalavarma-bhr̥kuṇṭhasi¿ṅ?hābhyām-adhiṣ¿ṭ?ā-
⟨7⟩ nasya prācyāṁ diśīndrapurādhiṣṭhāna-māḍāsyāta-lagnam eva pratiṣṭhāpitaka-bhagavate savitre dīpopayojyam ātma-yaśo-
⟨8⟩ -bhivr̥ddhaye mūlyaṁ prayacchati{ḥ}⟨.⟩ Indrapura-nivāsinyās tailika-śreṇyā jīvanta-pravarāyā Ito dhiṣṭhānād apakkrama-
⟨9⟩ ṇa-saṁpraveśa-yathāsthirāyā{ḥ} ājasrikaṁ grahapater dvija-mūlya-dattam anayā tu śreṇyā yad abhagna-yogaṁ
⟨10⟩ pra{t}thamārhāv{y}acchinna-saṁsthaṁ deyaṁ tailasya tulyena paladvayaṁ tu 2 candrārkka-samakālīyaṁ
⟨11⟩ yo vyakkramed dāyam imaṁ nibaddhaṁ go-ghno guru-ghno dvija-ghātakaḥ saḥ taiḥ pātakai[ḥ]
⟨12⟩ pañcabhir anvito ¿dhar? ggacchen naraḥ sopanipātakaiś ceti||

Bibliography

First noticed in Mitra 1874 (with a facsimile produced by Cunningham). Critically edited in Fleet 1888. Corrected (according to Kielhorn’s suggestion) in Fleet 1889, p. 219. Further correction in Agrawal 1941, p. 59.

Originally encoded for Siddham in the project Beyond Boundaries (Grant Agreement No. 609823) by Dániel Balogh (2019, № IN00035). Encoding updated to DHARMA conventions by Dániel Balogh.

Secondary

Fleet, John Faithfull. 1888. Inscriptions of the early Gupta kings and their successors. First edition. Vol. 3. Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum. Calcutta: Superintendent of Government Printing. Item 16.

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 30.

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 1279.

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 27.

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 35.

Goyal, Śrīrām. 1993. गुप्तकालीन अभिलेख/Guptakālīna Abhilekha (Inscriptions of the Gupta Age). Jodhpur: Kusumanjali Prakashan. Items 260-264.

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