# Varanasi Stone Pillar Inscription of the Time of Budhagupta

Dániel Balogh

Author of digital edition: Dániel Balogh

Identifier: DHARMA_INSSiddham00043

Repository: SIDDHAM (siddham)

File path: XML-Provisional/DHARMA_INSSiddham00043.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⟩ sa(mva) 100 50 9 mārgga di (20) 8
mahārājādhirāja⟨2⟩-budha(gu)¿tpa?⟨pta⟩-rājye
pārvvarika-vāstavya-māra⟨3⟩(viṣa?)-¿duhitā?⟨duhitrā⟩
(sābhāṭi?)-duhi⟨trā⟩ ca dāmasvā⟨4⟩mi(nyā) śilā-stambha⟨ḥ⟩ sthā(p)itaḥ

## Bibliography

First reported (with photograph of the pillar) in Banerji1945:5-6.
Listed in ARIE 1952–53, p. 73 (B. 456). Edited in Sircar 1949, pp. 5–7.

Originally encoded for Siddham in the project Beyond Boundaries (Grant
Agreement No. 609823) by Dániel Balogh (2019, № IN00043). 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 37.

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 33A.

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 49.

Goyal, Śrīrām. 1993. गुप्तकालीन अभिलेख/Guptakālīna Abhilekha (Inscriptions
of the Gupta Age). Jodhpur: Kusumanjali Prakashan. Items 282-283.