# Nalanda Seal Legend 1 of Kumāragupta II

Dániel Balogh

Alternative title: Nalanda Seal of Kumāragupta III

Author of digital edition: Dániel Balogh

Identifier: DHARMA_INSSiddham00053

Repository: SIDDHAM (siddham)

File path: XML-Provisional/DHARMA_INSSiddham00053.xml

Language: Sanskrit [Southern Brāhmī (unspecified)]

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## Edition

⟨1⟩ sa(r)vva-r(ā)jocch(e)ttuḫ pr̥thivyām apratirathasya
mahārāja-śrī-gupta-prapauttrasya
ma(h)ār(ā)ja-śrī-gha(ṭ)otka(ca-p)au(ttrasya
mahā)⟨2⟩rājādhirāja-ś(r)ī-candragupta-puttrasya licchavi-dauhittrasya
mahādevyāṁ kumāradevyām utpannasya
mahārājādhirāja⟨3⟩-(śrī-sa)mudraguptsya puttras tat-parigr̥hīto
mahādevyā¿n? dattadevyām utpannas s(va)yaṁ cāpratirathaḫ
parama(bh)āga⟨4⟩(vato ma)hārājādhir(ā)ja-śrī-candrag(u)ptas tasya
puttras (ta)t-p(ā)d(ā)nudh(y)āto mahādevyāṁ dhruvadevyām utpanno
mah(ā)rā⟨5⟩jādhirāja-śrī-kumāraguptas ta(s)ya puttras tat-pādānuddhyāto
mahādevyām anantadevyām utpanno mahā⟨6⟩r(ā)jādhirāja-śrī-puruguptas
tasya puttras tat-pādānuddhyāt(o) mahādevyāṁ śrī-candradevyām utpann(o)
mahā⟨7⟩rājādhirāja-śrī-narasiṁhagup(ta)s tasya puttras tat-pādānuddhyāto
mahādevyāṁ śrī-(m)ittrade⟨8⟩(vyā)m u(tpanna)ḫ parama-bhāgavato
mahārājādhirāja-śrī-kumāraguptaḥ

## Bibliography

Briefly noticed in Sastri 1931–1932, p. 77 (postscript). Described and
edited in Sastri 1942, pp. 65–67. A detail corrected by N. P.
Chakravarti in ARASI 1934–35, p. 63.

Originally encoded for Siddham in the project Beyond Boundaries (Grant
Agreement No. 609823) by Dániel Balogh (2019, № IN00053). 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 45.

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 42.

Goyal, Śrīrām. 1993. गुप्तकालीन अभिलेख/Guptakālīna Abhilekha (Inscriptions
of the Gupta Age). Jodhpur: Kusumanjali Prakashan. Items 271-273.