Nalanda Seal Legend of Budhagupta

Author of digital edition: Dániel Balogh (daba).

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

Repository: SIDDHAM (siddham).

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⟨1⟩ [sarvva-rājocchettuḥ pr̥thivyām apratirathasya mahārāja-]śrī-gupta-prapaut(t)rasya mahārā(ja-ś)rī-ghaṭo[tka] ⟨2⟩ [ca-pauttrasya mahārājādhirāja-śrī-candragupta-puttrasya liccha]v[i]-d[au]h[i]trasya mahādevyāṁ kum(ā)ra(devyām utpa)[nna] ⟨3⟩ [sya mahārājādhirāja-śrī-samudraguptasya putras tat-pari]gr̥h(īto) mah(ā)d(e)vyā(ṁ) dattad(e)vyā(m utpannas svayaṁ) ⟨4⟩ [cāpratirathaḥ parama-bhāgavato mahārājādhirāja-](śrī-candraguptas tasya puttras tat-pādānudhyāto) ⟨5⟩ [mahādevyāṁ dhruvadevyām utpanno mahārājādhirāja-](śrī-kumāraguptas tasya puttras tat-pādā) ⟨6⟩ [nudhyāto mahādevyām anantadevyām utpanno ma](hārājādhirāja-śrī-pur)[u](gu)¿(tpa)?(s tasya puttra) ⟨7⟩ [s tat-pādānudhyāto mahādevyāṁ](ca)[ndra](devyā)[m utpannaḥ] ⟨8⟩ [parama-bhāgavato mahārājādhirāja-](śrī)-budhagup(taḥ)

Bibliography

Briefly noticed in Sastri 1931–1932, p. 77 (postscript). Edited (with plate) in Sastri 1942, p. 64. Discussed in Sircar 1943, pp. 272–275.

Originally encoded for Siddham in the project Beyond Boundaries (Grant Agreement No. 609823) by Dániel Balogh (2019, № IN00049). 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 42.

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 36A.

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 45.

Goyal, Śrīrām. 1993. गुप्तकालीन अभिलेख/Guptakālīna Abhilekha (Inscriptions of the Gupta Age). Jodhpur: Kusumanjali Prakashan. Items 304-305.

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Bhandarkar does not supply the lost portions. I follow Agrawala in reconstructing them. Bhandarkar notes that there is room for two characters after ghaṭo at the end of the legible part of line 1, but Agrawala puts only tka here, and I agree that it's more likely to be just one character. Throughout the inscription, the positions of line breaks seem to be pretty arbitrary choices by editors based on how they count flyspeck characters. This should be reconsidered before publication.

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Here Agrawala puts svayañ cāpratirathaḥ in the next line. I can't read the photograph, but by the number of characters I judge Bhandarkar's line break to be better.

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Here Agrawala restores [#mahādevyāṁ śrī]-(?mahī)devyām utpannaḥ and notes that earlier scholars have suggested mahādevyām (apparently as the name). I follow Bhandarkar with candradevī.

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