# Eran Pillar Inscription of the time of Budhagupta

Dániel Balogh

Author of digital edition: Dániel Balogh

Identifier: DHARMA_INSSiddham00045

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Language: Sanskrit [Southern Brāhmī (unspecified)]

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## Edition

1. Āryā

⟨1⟩ jayati vibhuś catur-bhujaś catur-arṇṇava-vipula-salila-paryyaṅkaḥ
jagataḥ sthity-utpatti-(vya?)[yaika?]⟨2⟩-hetur ggaruḍa-ketuḥ

2. Āryā

śate pañca-ṣaṣṭy-adhike varṣāṇāṁ bhūpatau ca budhagupte
āṣāḍha-māsa-ś(ukla)⟨3⟩-(dvā)daśyāṁ suraguror ddivase|

saṁ 100 60 5

3. Āryā

kālindī-narmmadayor mmadhyaṁ pālayati lokapāla-guṇair
jjagati mahār(āja)⟨4⟩-śriyam anubhavati suraśmicandre ca|

asyāṁ saṁvatsara-māsa-divasa-pūrvvāyāṁ sva-karmmābhiratasya
kratu-yāji(naḥ) ⟨5⟩ Adhīta-svādhyāyasya viprarṣer
mmaittrāyaṇīya-vr̥ṣabhasyendraviṣṇoḥ prapauttreṇa pitur guṇānukāriṇo
varuṇav(i)ṣ(ṇoḥ) ⟨6⟩ pauttreṇa pitaram anujātasya sva-vaṁśa-vr̥ddhi-hetor
hariviṣṇoḥ puttreṇātyanta-bhagavad-bhaktena vidhātur icchayā
svayaṁ-varayeva r(ā)ja⟨7⟩-lakṣmyādhigatena
catuḥ-samudra-paryyanta-prathita-yaśasā
Akṣīṇa-māna-dhanenāneka-śattru-samara-jiṣṇunā mahārāja-mātr̥viṣṇun(ā) ⟨8⟩
tasyaivānujena tad-anuvidhāyin(ā) tat-prasāda-parigr̥(hī)tena
dhanya-viṣṇunā ca{|} ¿mātr̥?⟨mātā⟩-pittroḥ puṇyāpyāyanārtham eṣa
bhagavataḥ{|} ⟨9⟩ puṇya-janārddanasya janārddanasya dhvaja-stambho
bhyucchritaḥ

svasty astu go-brāhmaṇa-p(u)rogābhyaḥ sarvva-prajābhya Iti|

## Bibliography

First noticed (with transliteration, translation and eye copy) in
Prinsep 1838, pp. 633–634. Translation reprinted in Prinsep & Thomas
1858, p. 249. Reading and translation revised in Hall 1861, pp. 17–20.
Discussed and corrected in Cunningham 1880, pp. 81–82. Critically edited
in Fleet 1888. Summarised in Trivedi & Trivedi 2001, p. 21 (No. 6).

Originally encoded for Siddham in the project Beyond Boundaries (Grant
Agreement No. 609823) by Dániel Balogh (2019, № IN00045). Encoding
updated to DHARMA conventions by Dániel Balogh.

### Secondary

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their successors. First edition. Vol. 3. Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum.
Calcutta: Superintendent of Government Printing. Item 19.

Bhandarkar, Devadatta Ramakrishna, Bahadur Chand Chhabra & Govind
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A. C.: Appendix to Epigraphia Indica and record of the Archaeological
Survey of India, volumes XIX to XXIII. Calcutta: Archaeological Survey
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