# Supia Pillar Inscription of the Time of Skandagupta

Dániel Balogh

Author of digital edition: Dániel Balogh

Identifier: DHARMA_INSSiddham00037

Repository: SIDDHAM (siddham)

File path: XML-Provisional/DHARMA_INSSiddham00037.xml

Language: Sanskrit [Southern Brāhmī (unspecified)]

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## Edition

⟨1⟩ (śrī)-ghaṭ(o)tkaca⟨ḥ⟩⟨.⟩ tad-va¿n?śe prava[rttamā?]⟨2⟩(ne)
mahāra(rā)ja-śrī-samu(dragu)pta⟨ḥ⟩⟨.⟩ ta(t-pu)⟨3⟩(tra)⟨ḥ⟩
śrī-vikkramā(ditya)⟨ḥ⟩⟨.⟩ ta(tputra)⟨ḥ⟩
mahārā[ja]⟨4⟩-(śrī)-mahe(ndrāditya)⟨ḥ⟩⟨.⟩ tasya (pu)tra⟨ḥ⟩
cakkra-(va)⟨5⟩(rtti)-tu(lyo) (mahā)-bala-vikkrameṇa r(āma)⟨6⟩-(tu)lyo
dha(rmma)-pa(ra)tayā yudhiṣṭira sa(tye)⟨7⟩n(ā)c(ā)ravi(naya)
mahārāja-śrī-ska(nda)⟨8⟩guptasya rājya-(samva)tsara-śate
Eka⟨9⟩-catvāri(nśotta)rake

(asyāṁ) divasa-pū⟨10⟩rvvāyā¿ṁ? Avaḍara-vāstavya-kuṭumbi[kaḥ] ⟨11⟩
kaivartti-śreṣṭhi-¿naptr̥?⟨naptā⟩ hari-śreṣṭhi-pu(tra)⟨ḥ⟩
śrīda⟨12⟩(tta)⟨ḥ⟩⟨.⟩ tad-¿bhrātr̥?⟨bhrātā⟩ vargga⟨ḥ⟩⟨.⟩
ta(d-bhrā)¿ta?⟨tā⟩ ¿ccha?⟨cha⟩ndaka [ca. 3×] ⟨.⟩ ⟨13⟩
sva-puṇy-āpyāyan-ārthaṁ yaśaḥ-kī⟨14⟩(rtti)-pravardhamāna-gottra-śailikā
bala-ya⟨15⟩¿ṣṭhi?⟨ṣṭiḥ⟩ pratiṣṭhāpitā vargga-grāmikeṇa ⟨16⟩
¿je?⟨jye⟩ṣṭha-māse śukla-pakṣasya dvitī⟨17⟩(yāyāṁ) ti(thau)

## Bibliography

First noticed and described in Chhabra 1948. Mentioned in Sircar 1949,
p. 6. Edited in Sircar [1963] 1959–1960, pp. 306–308. There is an
editorial note in Bhandarkar et al. 1981, n. 317, p. 5 saying “D. R.
Bhandarkar’s manuscript does not contain his article on this inscription
though he was aware of its discovery and possessed an impression of it.”
Thus I suppose the edition in Bhandarkar et al. 1981 is Chhabra’s and/or
Gai’s.

Originally encoded for Siddham in the project Beyond Boundaries (Grant
Agreement No. 609823) by Dániel Balogh (2019, № IN00037). 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 32.

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 26A.

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 34.

Goyal, Śrīrām. 1993. गुप्तकालीन अभिलेख/Guptakālīna Abhilekha (Inscriptions
of the Gupta Age). Jodhpur: Kusumanjali Prakashan. Items 256-259.