# Nalanda Seal Legend 2 of Kumāragupta II

Dániel Balogh

Alternative title: Nalanda Seal of Kumāragupta III

Author of digital edition: Dániel Balogh

Identifier: DHARMA_INSSiddham00054

Repository: SIDDHAM (siddham)

File path: XML-Provisional/DHARMA_INSSiddham00054.xml

Language: Sanskrit [Southern Brāhmī (unspecified)]

Commit: 2026-09-16 10:40 (3083d2d), last modified 2026-09-16 09:24
(c200993)

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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)mudraguptasya 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) mahā-devyāṁ 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

See INSSiddham00053 for references; the two specimens are not discussed
separately.

Originally encoded for Siddham in the project Beyond Boundaries (Grant
Agreement No. 609823) by Dániel Balogh (2019, № IN00054). 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.

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