# Sarnath Inscription of Prakaṭāditya

Dániel Balogh

Author of digital edition: Dániel Balogh

Identifier: DHARMA_INSSiddham00071

Repository: SIDDHAM (siddham)

File path: XML-Provisional/DHARMA_INSSiddham00071.xml

Language: Sanskrit [Southern Brāhmī (unspecified)]

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

⟨1⟩ (devā) [ca. 14×] [||]

1. Anuṣṭubh

[2×] kāśīti-vikhyātaṁ
puraṁ (kāśe?)na bhūṣitaṁ|
[ca. 2×] [⏓⏓⏑––⏓]
[⏓⏓⏓⏓⏑–⏑⏓]

2. Anuṣṭubh(?)

[8×]
⟨2⟩ (pu)raṁdara I[va] [2×] [|]
[8×]
[4×] pataty a(ho?)||

(tu)ṅga-(taraṅga-va?) [2×] śāstra-vido [4×] taṭān(āṁ|) (ka?)ri [2×] […]

3. Āryā

[…] ⟨3⟩ rān madhya-da [.][.] ṁśam ānītaḥ|
tad-vaṁśa-sambhavo nyo vālādityo nr̥paḥ prītyā||

4. Āryā(?)

tad-gotra-lavdha-janmā vālādityo [1×] […]
[…] ⟨4⟩ patiḥ||

5. Āryā

tasya dhavaleti jāyā pati-vratā rohiṇīva candrasya|
gaurīva śūlapāṇer l(l)akṣmīr iva vāsu[de][vasya||]

[…] ⟨5⟩ [pra]tāpa-tapt-āmitra-vadhū-sindhu-śo[ṣa] [ca. 7×] ti-vinayā
dvaya-bh(r̥?)taṁ bhakti-dharmm-aika-śakti-satata-prathita [1×] […] ⟨6⟩
(?)(u)ḥ suta-va(tsala) [ca. 1×] (||?)

6. Āryā(?)

[ca. 8×] sutaḥ (śauryya-vinaya)-sampannaḥ|
śrīmān pra(ka)ṭādi(tyo) [1×] […]

7. Āryā

[…] ⟨7⟩ [dvi]ja-vara-nikar-āśrayaḥ pra(vr̥ddha?)-guṇaḥ|
kalpa-druma Iva nitarāṁ niṣkampaḥ prakaṭa-mūlo pi(||)

8. Gīti(?)

[1×] […] [|]
[ca. 2+] ⟨8⟩ dvija-gaṇa-sevyaḥ sa[tata?]ṁ vidvat-samudaya-vihita-ruciḥ||

9. Āryā

nir[jj]ita-(du)rjjaya-śat(tru)s tri [1×] […] [|]
[…] ⟨9⟩ (pū?)rvvaḥ kārttikeya Iva||

10. Vasantatilakā

yasya [–] v(e?) [⏑⏑⏑] nirgata [–⏑] luvdha-
-hr̥ṣṭa-bhramad-bhrama[ra] [–⏑] vi(rakta?)[–][⏓][|]
[––⏑–⏑⏑⏑–⏑⏑–⏑–⏓]
[––⏑–⏑] ⟨10⟩ ta-dinaṁ pr̥thu-puṣkariṇyaḥ||

11. Āryā(?)

(yena?) ripu-sundarīṇāṁ malināni kr̥tāni v(i)pu(la) [ca. 3×] (|?)
[ca. 2×] […] [||]

[…] ⟨11⟩ [1×] na(śana?)-(dvi)ja-gu(ru) [ca. 11×] (kāritam eta?)d
bhavanaṁ muradviṣo ra [5×] […] ⟨12⟩ [ca. 20×] (yābhāsu?)yutāyāmikā
prakaṭa(pusa?) [1×] […] ⟨13⟩ [ca. 20×] (sa ca?) bahu-mato
dharmma-yaśo-rāśi [2×] […] ⟨14⟩ [ca. 20×] ya(ḥ?)||
khaṇḍa-(sphu)ṭita-saṁskāra [ca. 3×] dhū [1×] […] ⟨15⟩ [ca. 21×]
(haṁsa-bha) [ca. 1×] praśastiḥ svā [ca. 1×] [ca. 3×] (taḥ||?) […] ⟨15⟩
[ca. 21×] (rā)maca(ndra-puttre)ṇa deva(kena||)

## Bibliography

First noticed and edited (with plate) in Fleet 1888.

Originally encoded for Siddham in the project Beyond Boundaries (Grant
Agreement No. 609823) by Dániel Balogh (2019, № IN00071). Encoding
updated to DHARMA conventions by Dániel Balogh.

### Secondary

Fleet, John Faithfull. 1888. Inscriptions of the early Gupta kings and
their successors. First edition. Vol. 3. Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum.
Calcutta: Superintendent of Government Printing. Item 79.

Bhandarkar, Devadatta Ramakrishna. 1927–1936. A list of the inscriptions
of northern India in Brahmi and its derivative scripts, from about 200
A. C.: Appendix to Epigraphia Indica and record of the Archaeological
Survey of India, volumes XIX to XXIII. Calcutta: Archaeological Survey
of India. [URL]. Item 1789.

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 60.

Goyal, Śrīrām. 1993. गुप्तकालीन अभिलेख/Guptakālīna Abhilekha (Inscriptions
of the Gupta Age). Jodhpur: Kusumanjali Prakashan. Items 322-323.