Bhitari Inscription of the Time of Budhagupta, Front

Author of digital edition: Dániel Balogh (daba).

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

Repository: SIDDHAM (siddham).

Identifier: DHARMA_INSSiddham00068.

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

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⟨1⟩  ⟨Fragment A⟩ [******] (sa)mba ⟨Fragment B⟩ [100] (70) mahārājādh(i)-
⟨2⟩ ⟨Fragment A⟩(rā)ja-śrī-vudhagupta-rājya- ⟨Fragment B⟩ [k]āle Uttaravāṭi-
⟨3⟩ ⟨Fragment A⟩kāyāṁ puṣpagr̥ha-sa(v?)i ⟨Fragment B⟩ [tr̥?]-puṣkariṇyāḥ-
⟨4⟩ ⟨Fragment A⟩saṁlagnottara-pārśve vaṭṭa- ⟨Fragment B⟩ (p)uṣpagr̥haka-deva
⟨5⟩  ⟨Fragment A⟩ -(prasādakaṁ guru-vipra-māne?) ⟨Fragment B⟩ (na)-k(ā)ritaka-deva
⟨6⟩  ⟨Fragment A⟩ […] ⟨Fragment B⟩ […]

Bibliography

Apparently first described and edited in Agrawala 1983.

Originally encoded for Siddham in the project Beyond Boundaries (Grant Agreement No. 609823) by Dániel Balogh (2019, № IN00068). Encoding updated to DHARMA conventions by Dániel Balogh.

Secondary

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 56.

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As Agrawala notes, the reading 70 is "not without doubt". I should note that I can't see the sa of samba, and judging from l2, the vertical break has hardly obliterated anything (the huge gap in Agrawala's plate is misleading), so there may not have been room for a "100" between mba (if that's what it is) and 70 (if that's what it is).

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Agrawala credits R. S. Mishra for the restoration savitr̥. I would prefer to restore sahita.

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Agrawala thinks vaṭṭa may be a personal name, or a mistake for vaṭa. I think pārśva-vaddha (for baddha) is a more likely reading.

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I adopt Agrawala's "very much uncertain" reading here. Practically all the characters could be read differently, e.g. (without attempting to produce intelligible words) dayāvakaśuraśuravasita

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