# Sarnath Buddha Image Inscription 1 of the Time of Budhagupta

Dániel Balogh

Author of digital edition: Dániel Balogh

Identifier: DHARMA_INSSiddham00041

Repository: SIDDHAM (siddham)

File path: XML-Provisional/DHARMA_INSSiddham00041.xml

Language: Sanskrit [Southern Brāhmī (unspecified)]

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## Edition

1. Anuṣṭubh

⟨1⟩ guptā(nā)ṁ samatikkrānte
sapta-paṁcāśad-uttare
śate samānāṁ pr̥thiv[īṁ]
budhagupte praśāsati[|]

2. Anuṣṭubh

[vaiśākha-māsa-saptamyāṁ]
[mūle śma-pragate] ⟨2⟩ mayā
kāritābhayamitreṇa
pratimā (śāk)ya-bhikṣuṇā||

3. Anuṣṭubh

imām u[ddhasta-saccha]tra-
-pad(mā)sa(na)-[vibhūṣitāṁ]
[deva-putravato divyāṁ]
⟨3⟩ citra-vinyāsa-citritāṁ||

4. Anuṣṭubh

yad asti puṇ(ya)ṁ p(ra)timāṁ
kārayitvā mamāstu ta(T)
(mā)tā-(pittror gu)[rūṇāṁ ca]
[lokasya ca śamāptaye||]

## Bibliography

First reported by Hargreaves (with plate of the image, and
transliterated text by Y. R. Gupte) in Marshall 1920, pp. 124–125. Also
(possibly earlier), by Gupte in the Progress Report of the
Archaeological Survey, Northern Circle, 1914-15 (untraced).

Originally encoded for Siddham in the project Beyond Boundaries (Grant
Agreement No. 609823) by Dániel Balogh (2019, № IN00041). 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 36A.

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 1283.

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 33.

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 48.

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. Sārnāth 201.

Goyal, Śrīrām. 1993. गुप्तकालीन अभिलेख/Guptakālīna Abhilekha (Inscriptions
of the Gupta Age). Jodhpur: Kusumanjali Prakashan. Items 275-276.