Kalaikuri-Sultanpur Plate of the Time of Kumāragupta I
Editor: Dániel Balogh.
Identifier: DHARMA_INSSiddham00074.
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Language: Sanskrit.
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⟨Page 1r⟩ ⟨1⟩ svasti⟨.⟩ śr̥ṅgavera-vaitheya-pūrṇṇak(au)ś(i)k(ā)yāḥ Āyuktakā(cyuta)dās(o) dh[i]kara(ṇañ ca ha)stiśīrṣe (vibhītak)y(āṁ gulmagandhi)⟨2⟩kā(yā)ṁ (dhā)nyapāṭalikāyāṁ sa(ṁ)gohāl¿i?ṣu brāhmaṇādīn grāma-kuṭumbi[naḥ k]uśalam anuvarṇya bo(dhayant)i⟨.⟩ [vi]ditam bo ⟨3⟩ bhaviṣyati yathā Iha-vīthī-kulika-bhīma-kāyastha-prabhucandra-rudradāsa-devadatta-lakṣmaṇa-kā(ntide)va-śambhudatta-kr̥ṣṇa⟨4⟩dāsa-pustapāla-si¿(ṅha)?nandi-yaśodāmabhiḥ vīthī-mahattara-kumāradeva-gaṇḍa-prajāpati-Uma(yaśa-rā)maśarmma-jyeṣṭha⟨5⟩-dāma-svāmicandra-harisi¿ṅ?ha-kuṭumbi-yaśoviṣṇu-kumāraviṣṇu-kumārabhava-kumārabhūti-kumāra-ya(śogu?)pta-vailina(ka?)⟨6⟩-śivakuṇḍa-vasuśiv-āparaśiva-dāmarudra-prabhamitra-kr̥ṣṇamitra-maghaśarmma-īśvaracandra-rudra-bhava(svā)(mideva?) ⟨7⟩ śrīnātha-hariśarmma-guptaśarmma-suśarmma-hari-Alātasvāmi-brahmasvāmi-mahāsenabhaṭṭa-(ṣaṣṭhirā)[ma]-(gu) [4×] [śa]⟨8⟩rmma-Uṇṭaśarmma-kr̥ṣṇadatta-nandadāma-bhavadatta-Ahiśarmma-s(o)maviṣṇu-lakṣmaṇaśa(r)[mma]-(kānti-dho?)vv(oka)-kṣemaśarmma-śu⟨9⟩kkraśarmma-sarp(p)apālita-kaṅkuṭi-viśvaśaṅkara-jayasvāmi-kaivarttaśarmma-himaśarmma-(p)u(ran)da(ra-ja)yaviṣṇu-(uma?) [ca. 1×] ⟨10⟩ si¿ṅ?hatta-bonda-nārāya¿n?adāsa-vīranāga-rājyanāga-guhamahi-bhavanātha-guhaviṣṇu-śarvva-ya(śo?)vi(ṣṇu-taṅ)ka-kuladāma [ca. 2×] ⟨11⟩ śrīgu(ha)viṣṇu-rāmasvāmi-kā(ma)nakuṇḍa-ratibhadra-Acyutabhadra-loḍhaka-prabhakīrtti-jayada(tta?)-(ko)bha(ka?)-Acyuta-naradeva-bhava⟨12⟩-bhavarakṣita-piccakuṇḍa-pravarakuṇḍa-śarvvadāsa-gopāla-purogāḥ vayaṁ ca vijñāpitāḥ
Iha vīthyām apratikara-khila-kṣetra⟨13⟩sya śaśvat-kālopabhogāyākṣaya-nīvyā dvi-dīnārikya-khila-kṣetra-kulya-bāpa-vikraya-maryādayā Icchemahi prati ⟨14⟩ prati mātā-pitroḥ puṇyābhivr̥ddhaye pauṇḍravarddhanaka-cāturvvedya-vāj¿i?saneya-caraṇābhyantara-brāhmaṇa-deva⟨15⟩bhaṭṭa-Amaradatta-mahāsenadattānāṁ pañca-mahāyajña-pravarttanāya nava-kulya-bāpā(n kr)ītvā dātuṁ⟨.⟩ Ebhir evo(pa)⟨16⟩ri-nirddiṣṭaka-grāmeṣu khila-kṣetrāṇi vidyante tad arhathāsmattaḥ Aṣṭādaśa-dīnārān gr̥hīt(v)ā Etān nava-kulya-b(ā)[pā]⟨Page 1v⟩⟨17⟩ny anumoday[i]tu[ṁ]
yataḥ Eṣā[ṁ] kulika-bhīm-ād(ī)nāṁ vijñāpyam upalabhya pustapāla-si¿ṅ?hanandi-(yaśo)[dāmnoś cā]⟨18⟩vadhāraṇayāvadhr̥to sty ayam iha vīthyām apratikara-khila-kṣettrasya śaśvat-kālopabhogāyākṣayanīvyā dvi-dī(nā)⟨19⟩rikya-kulya-bāpa-vikkrayo nuvr̥ttas tad dīyatāṁ nāsti virodhaḥ kaścid⟨.⟩ ity avasthāpya kulika-bhīmādibhyo Aṣṭādaśa ⟨20⟩ dīnārān upasa¿ṅ?haritakān āyīkr̥tya hastiśīrṣa-vibhītakyāṁ dhānyapāṭalikā-(gu)[lma](ga)ndhikā-grāmeṣu (v)i(bh)ī(ta?)[1×]⟨21⟩dyāṁ dakṣiṇoddeśeṣu Aṣṭau kulya-bāpāḥ dhānyapāṭalikā-grāmasya paścimottaroddeśe [1×] dy(o) [1×] (ta-pa)rikhā-veṣṭi(ta)⟨22⟩¿m? uttar(e)ṇa vāṭā-nadī paścimena gulmagandhikā-grāma-¿sīmānam? iti kulya-bāpa(m eko) gulm¿ā?gandhikāyāṁ pūrvv(e)⟨23⟩ṇ ādyapathaḥ paścima-pradeśe droṇa-bāpa-dvayaṁ hastiśīrṣa-prāveśya-tāpasa[po](tta)ke dayitāpottake ca vi⟨24⟩bhītaka-prāveśya-citravātaṅgare (yāva)⟨t⟩ kulya-bāpāḥ sapta droṇa-bāpāḥ ṣat eṣu yathopari-nirddiṣṭaka-grāma-pra⟨25⟩deśeṣv eṣāṁ kulika-bhīma-kāyastha-prabhucandra-rudradāsādīnāṁ mātā-pitroḥ puṇyābhivr̥ddhaye brā(hmaṇa) ⟨26⟩ devabhaṭṭasya kulya-bāpāḥ pañca ku 5 Amaradattasya kulya-bāpa-dvayaṁ mahāsenadattasya kulya-bā[pa-dvayaṁ] ⟨27⟩ ku 2 Eṣāṁ trayāṇām pañca-mahāyajña-pravarttanāya nava-kulya-bāpāni pradattāni
tad yuṣmākaṁ [3×] (ni?)(vedya)⟨28⟩ti likhyate ca⟨.⟩ samupasthita-kāla(m a)py anye viṣayapatayaḥ Āyuktakāḥ kuṭumbino dhikaraṇikā vā sambyava⟨29⟩hāriṇo bhaviṣyanti tair api bhūmi-dāna-phalam avekṣya Akṣaya-nīvy anupālanīyā⟨.⟩ Uktañ ca mahā(bhā)ra(te bhagava)⟨30⟩tā vyāsena
I. Anuṣṭubh
sva-dattāṁ para-dattām bā
ayo hare⟨ta⟩ vasundharāṁ
bsa viṣṭhāyāṁ k¿ri?mir bhūtvā
cpi(tr̥bhiḥ) saha pa[cyate]
dII. Anuṣṭubh
[ṣa](ṣṭiṁ varṣa-sahasrā)[ṇi]
a⟨31⟩ svargge vasati bhūmidaḥ
bĀkṣeptā cānuma[ntā] ca
ctāny eva narake vaseT
dIII. Anuṣṭubh
kr̥śāya kr̥śa-vr̥ttāya
avr̥tti-kṣīṇāya sīda[te]
b(bhūmiṁ) ⟨32⟩ vr̥ttikarī¿n? da¿tv?ā
cs[ukh]ī bhavati kāmada⟨ḥ⟩
dIV. Anuṣṭubh
bahubhi(r vasudhā) bhuktā
abhujyate ca punaḥ puna⟨ḥ⟩
byasya yasya yadā bhū[mis]
c[tasya] (tasya) ⟨33⟩ ta(dā) phalaṁ
dV. Anuṣṭubh
pūrvva-dattāṁ dvijātibhyo
ayatnād ¿rakṣya?⟨rakṣa⟩ [yu](dhi)ṣṭhira
bmahīm mahimatāṁ śreṣṭha
cdānā(c chreyo nu)[pāla](na)(m?)
diti⟨.⟩ (likhitaṁ?) ⟨34⟩ sa(ṁ) ⟦(mba?)⟧¿vv?aT 100 20 vaiśākha di 1
Apparatus
Translation by Doe and Devadatta N.d.
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The editions of Sircar_1943a, Sanyal and Agrawala (who may be copying Sircar SI) differ in many small details, e.g. over what they show as clear and unclear. I'm keeping track only of major editorial differences, and mark the text up according to my reading of the facsimile.
--><lb n="1"/>svasti<supplied reason="subaudible">.</supplied> śr̥ṅgavera-vaitheya-pūrṇṇak<unclear>au</unclear>ś<unclear>i</unclear>k<unclear>ā</unclear>yāḥ Āyuktakā<unclear>cyuta</unclear>dās<unclear>o</unclear> dh<supplied reason="lost">i</supplied>kara<unclear>ṇañ ca ha</unclear>stiśīrṣe <unclear>vibhītak</unclear>y<unclear>āṁ gulmagandhi</unclear><lb n="2" break="no"/>kā<unclear>yā</unclear>ṁ <unclear>dhā</unclear>nyapāṭalikāyāṁ sa<unclear>ṁ</unclear>gohāl<sic>i</sic>ṣu brāhmaṇādīn grāma-kuṭumbi<supplied reason="lost"><!-- CHECK if <unclear> applies better.-->naḥ k</supplied>uśalam anuvarṇya bo<unclear>dhayant</unclear>i<supplied reason="subaudible">.</supplied> <supplied reason="lost"><!-- CHECK if <unclear> applies better.-->vi</supplied>ditam bo
<lb n="3"/>bhaviṣyati yathā Iha-vīthī-kulika-bhīma-kāyastha-prabhucandra-rudradāsa-devadatta-lakṣmaṇa-kā<unclear>ntide</unclear>va-śambhudatta-kr̥ṣṇa<lb n="4" break="no"/>dāsa-pustapāla-si<sic><unclear>ṅha</unclear></sic>nandi-yaśodāmabhiḥ vīthī-mahattara-kumāradeva-gaṇḍa-prajāpati-Uma<unclear>yaśa-rā</unclear>maśarmma-jyeṣṭha<lb n="5" break="no"/>-dāma-svāmicandra-harisi<sic>ṅ</sic>ha-kuṭumbi-yaśoviṣṇu-kumāraviṣṇu-kumārabhava-kumārabhūti-kumāra-ya<unclear cert="low">śogu</unclear>pta-vailina<unclear cert="low">ka</unclear><!--
As Sanyal's editor notes, the first character of l5 actually looks like do, not dā.
--><!--
The segmentation of the names may be different in places; editors seem to agree on most. I'd expect a guy called kumārayaśas after all the kumāra-somethings.
--><!--
At the end, Sircar reads ya(?śa)#1#stavai(?khi)lina(?ka); Sanyal sees ya(śogu)pta-vailinandi while Agrawala has ya(śogu)pta-vailinaka. Sanyal's editor also remarks that the last character does not look like ndi.
--><lb n="6" break="no"/>-śivakuṇḍa-vasuśiv-āparaśiva-dāmarudra-prabhamitra-kr̥ṣṇamitra-maghaśarmma-īśvaracandra-rudra-bhava<unclear>svā</unclear><unclear cert="low">mideva</unclear><!--
For prabhamitra, Sanyal and Agrawala read prabhumitra. I agree with Sanyal's editor: the character is definitely bha; compare prabhu in l3 and bhava in l8.
--><!--
At the end I follow the reading suggested by Sanyal's editor and adopted by Agrawala. Sanyal himself read bhavanā(tha)#1#, while Sircar read nothing after bhava. Segmentation is arbitrary.
--><!--
I think an initial ī is rare enough to deserve comment. Initial i in this inscription looks like :| while this ī character is :|° (single dot, not circle, to the right of the bar).
--><lb n="7"/>śrīnātha-hariśarmma-guptaśarmma-suśarmma-hari-Alātasvāmi-brahmasvāmi-mahāsenabhaṭṭa-<unclear>ṣaṣṭhirā</unclear><supplied reason="lost"><!-- CHECK if <unclear> applies better.-->ma</supplied>-<unclear>gu</unclear> <gap reason="illegible" quantity="4" unit="character"/> <supplied reason="lost"><!-- CHECK if <unclear> applies better.-->śa</supplied><!--
Editors readings for the end of the line - Sircar_1943a: svā(?mya) #3# (?rū)paśa - Sanyal: ṣaṣṭhirā(ma)-gu . . . . (śa) - Agrawala: ṣaṣṭhi(rāta) ga #3# śa (proposing to restore Gaṇapati or Guhapati). I can imagine a number of other possibilities, e.g. svāmi for ṣaṣṭhi; datta and śarmma for the next two characters; and bra[#hm]aśa for the last 3.
--><lb n="8" break="no"/>rmma-Uṇṭaśarmma-kr̥ṣṇadatta-nandadāma-bhavadatta-Ahiśarmma-s<unclear>o</unclear>maviṣṇu-lakṣmaṇaśa<unclear>r</unclear><supplied reason="lost"><!-- CHECK if <unclear> applies better.-->mma</supplied>-<unclear cert="low">kānti-dho</unclear>vv<unclear>oka</unclear>-kṣemaśarmma-śu<!--
For uṇṭaśarmma, Sircar reads ruṣṭaśarmma. Both seem equally possible and this is at least meaningful.
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Sircar and Agrawala read #?2# dhovvoka; Sanyal has dhaivvaka, and his editor says the reading seems to be kānti-dhovvoka.
--><lb n="9" break="no"/>kkraśarmma-sarp<unclear>p</unclear>apālita-kaṅkuṭi-viśvaśaṅkara-jayasvāmi-kaivarttaśarmma-himaśarmma-<unclear>p</unclear>u<unclear>ran</unclear>da<unclear>ra-ja</unclear>yaviṣṇu-<unclear cert="low">uma</unclear> <gap reason="illegible" precision="low" quantity="1" unit="character"/>
<lb n="10"/>si<sic>ṅ</sic>hatta-bonda-nārāya<sic>n</sic>adāsa-vīranāga-rājyanāga-guhamahi-bhavanātha-guhaviṣṇu-śarvva-ya<unclear cert="low">śo</unclear>vi<unclear>ṣṇu-taṅ</unclear>ka-kuladāma <gap reason="illegible" precision="low" quantity="2" unit="character"/><!--
All editors emend siṅhatta to siṅhadatta.
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Sanyal's editor says it's ṭakka, not taṅka. Sircar reads śarvvaviṣṇuvi #3# kuladāsa #2#. The character after vi is indiscernible, but certainly a ligature. The one after that (ta/ṭa) is just a trace, could be ṭa, not ta, perhaps dha or ba.The next one is imo definitely not ṅka; could be ssa or kṣa. Then kuladāma seems plausible, though it looks more like dī and sa is possible instead of ma. Sanyal also reads a va at the very end of the line, which I cannot see.
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For the name I tentatively read as kobhaka, Sircar (uncertainly) and Agrawala (certainly) have kālaka, Sanyal just has kā..., and his editor suggests kāluka. Perhaps combine to koluka? lu is more plausible than la.
--><lb n="12" break="no"/>-bhavarakṣita-piccakuṇḍa-pravarakuṇḍa-śarvvadāsa-gopāla-purogāḥ vayaṁ ca vijñāpitāḥ</p>
<p>Iha vīthyām apratikara-khila-kṣetra<lb n="13" break="no"/>sya śaśvat-kālopabhogāyākṣaya-nīvyā dvi-dīnārikya-khila-kṣetra-kulya-bāpa-vikraya-maryādayā Icchemahi prati
<lb n="14"/>prati mātā-pitroḥ puṇyābhivr̥ddhaye pauṇḍravarddhanaka-cāturvvedya-vāj<sic>i</sic>saneya-caraṇābhyantara-brāhmaṇa-deva<lb n="15" break="no"/>bhaṭṭa-Amaradatta-mahāsenadattānāṁ pañca-mahāyajña-pravarttanāya nava-kulya-bāpā<unclear>n kr</unclear>ītvā dātuṁ<supplied reason="subaudible">.</supplied> Ebhir evo<unclear>pa</unclear><lb n="16" break="no"/>ri-nirddiṣṭaka-grāmeṣu khila-kṣetrāṇi vidyante tad arhathāsmattaḥ Aṣṭādaśa-dīnārān gr̥hīt<unclear>v</unclear>ā Etān nava-kulya-b<unclear>ā</unclear><supplied reason="lost">pā</supplied><pb n="1v" break="no"/><lb n="17" break="no"/>ny anumoday<supplied reason="lost"><!-- CHECK if <unclear> applies better.-->i</supplied>tu<supplied reason="lost"><!-- CHECK if <unclear> applies better.-->ṁ</supplied></p>
<p>yataḥ Eṣā<supplied reason="lost"><!-- CHECK if <unclear> applies better.-->ṁ</supplied> kulika-bhīm-ād<unclear>ī</unclear>nāṁ vijñāpyam upalabhya pustapāla-si<sic>ṅ</sic>hanandi-<unclear>yaśo</unclear><supplied reason="lost"><!-- CHECK if <unclear> applies better.-->dāmnoś cā</supplied><!--
The restoration of the illegibly corroded end of the line is shared by all editors (though Sanyal spells "dāmnośca a", presumably to account for the space of 4-5 characters). I could also imagine dāmnor a; the ca seems superfluous to me.
--><lb n="18" break="no"/>vadhāraṇayāvadhr̥to sty ayam iha vīthyām apratikara-khila-kṣettrasya śaśvat-kālopabhogāyākṣayanīvyā dvi-dī<unclear>nā</unclear><!--
The character ttra is quite unclear but it does seem to be ttra, whereas above kṣetra was repeatedly spelt with a single t.
--><!--
The gā in bhogāya is funny. The character was obviously intended as gā, so I'm transcribing it as such, but it looks (almost but not quite) like gra. The intent is probably an ā mātrā attached to the lower right.
--><lb n="19" break="no"/>rikya-kulya-bāpa-vikkrayo nuvr̥ttas tad dīyatāṁ nāsti virodhaḥ kaścid<supplied reason="subaudible">.</supplied> ity avasthāpya kulika-bhīmādibhyo Aṣṭādaśa
<lb n="20"/>dīnārān upasa<sic>ṅ</sic>haritakān āyīkr̥tya hastiśīrṣa-vibhītakyāṁ dhānyapāṭalikā-<unclear>gu</unclear><supplied reason="lost"><!-- CHECK if <unclear> applies better.-->lma</supplied><unclear>ga</unclear>ndhikā-grāmeṣu <unclear>v</unclear>i<unclear>bh</unclear>ī<unclear cert="low">ta</unclear> <gap reason="illegible" quantity="1" unit="character"/><!--
Agrawala attempts to reconstruct the end as viṣikhā-nadyāṁ (dyāṁ in the next line, that is). Earlier editors just transcribe a lacuna after grāmeṣu. I think the second vowel mātrā is ī, not i. The last character is absolutely illegible. I might hazard vibhītakyādyāṁ, but this doesn't really make sense.
--><lb n="21" break="no"/>dyāṁ dakṣiṇoddeśeṣu Aṣṭau kulya-bāpāḥ dhānyapāṭalikā-grāmasya paścimottaroddeśe <gap reason="illegible" quantity="1" unit="character"/> dy<unclear>o</unclear> <gap reason="illegible" quantity="1" unit="character"/> <unclear>ta-pa</unclear>rikhā-veṣṭi<unclear>ta</unclear><!--
The "mo" of paścimottara looks rather like ṇa. Compare l11 of IN00026 (Damodarpur plate 1) where the reading is paścinattar° emended to paścimottar° - that could be the same case. In l7 of the present inscription, mo looks the same, so this is not a "typo" here.
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For the damaged bit near the end of l21, Sircar reads (?sadyaḥkhāta); Sanyal: (ā)dyakhāta; Agrawala: (ṣvā)dyakhāta. The first unclear character is imo completely unrecognisable; dy may or may not have a vowel mātrā above it; the next unclear character looks to me quite different from khā just a few characters onward in this line; after that, ta seems to have something below it (tsa? tma?) and the subscript thing also seems to be connected to pa, unless it's ma or something else (though parikhā makes good sense). I could also imagine ādyapathaḥ (or [°ddeśe]ṇādyapathaḥ, as in l23 below. In this case the visarga seems to be a later insertion, wedged below (tha) and the following pa and slightly below the regular placement.
--><lb n="22" break="no"/><sic>m</sic> uttar<unclear>e</unclear>ṇa vāṭā-nadī paścimena gulmagandhikā-grāma-<sic>sīmānam</sic> iti kulya-bāpa<unclear>m eko</unclear> gulm<sic>ā</sic>gandhikāyāṁ pūrvv<unclear>e</unclear><lb n="23" break="no"/>ṇ ādyapathaḥ paścima-pradeśe droṇa-bāpa-dvayaṁ hastiśīrṣa-prāveśya-tāpasa<supplied reason="lost"><!-- CHECK if <unclear> applies better.-->po</supplied><unclear>tta</unclear>ke dayitāpottake ca vi<lb n="24" break="no"/>bhītaka-prāveśya-citravātaṅgare <unclear>yāva</unclear><supplied reason="omitted">t</supplied> kulya-bāpāḥ sapta droṇa-bāpāḥ ṣat eṣu yathopari-nirddiṣṭaka-grāma-pra<!--
Sanyal's editor notes that yāva appears to be written on an erasure and is doubtful. There may indeed be correction here, perhaps "yāvat" corrected to "eva ku"; I could also imagine a scenario where the text first inscribed was kulyabā, corrected to yāva ku.
--><lb n="25" break="no"/>deśeṣv eṣāṁ kulika-bhīma-kāyastha-prabhucandra-rudradāsādīnāṁ mātā-pitroḥ puṇyābhivr̥ddhaye brā<unclear>hmaṇa</unclear>
<lb n="26"/>devabhaṭṭasya kulya-bāpāḥ pañca ku <num value="5">5</num> Amaradattasya kulya-bāpa-dvayaṁ mahāsenadattasya kulya-bā<supplied reason="lost"><!-- CHECK if <unclear> applies better.-->pa-dvayaṁ</supplied>
<lb n="27"/>ku <num value="2">2</num> Eṣāṁ trayāṇām pañca-mahāyajña-pravarttanāya nava-kulya-bāpāni pradattāni</p>
<p>tad yuṣmākaṁ <gap reason="illegible" quantity="3" unit="character"/> <unclear cert="low">ni</unclear><unclear>vedya</unclear><!--
At the end, Agrawala prints nivedya as clear and emends ti at the beginning of the next line to te. (This is also the reading/emendation suggested by Sanyal's editor.) Previous editors read nothing after yuṣmākaṁ. The suggestion is plausible. I could also imagine reading bhi instead of ti at the beginning of the next line, to give us abhilikhyate - but then we need a different reading for this line end here.
--><lb n="28" break="no"/>ti likhyate ca<supplied reason="subaudible">.</supplied> samupasthita-kāla<unclear>m a</unclear>py anye viṣayapatayaḥ Āyuktakāḥ kuṭumbino dhikaraṇikā vā sambyava<!--
See note to prev line for the ti at the beginning of l28.
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For kālam apy, Sanyal's editor proposes the alternative kālaṁ ye py (he actually says kālaṁ yē=apy=anye, but I don't think ye apy is possible from the facsimile).
--><lb n="29" break="no"/>hāriṇo bhaviṣyanti tair api bhūmi-dāna-phalam avekṣya Akṣaya-nīvy anupālanīyā<supplied reason="subaudible">.</supplied> Uktañ ca mahā<unclear>bhā</unclear>ra<unclear>te bhagava</unclear><lb n="30" break="no"/>tā vyāsena</p>
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<l n="a">sva-dattāṁ para-dattām bā</l>
<l n="b">yo hare<supplied reason="omitted">ta</supplied> vasundharāṁ</l>
<l n="c">sa viṣṭhāyāṁ k<sic>ri</sic>mir bhūtvā</l>
<l n="d">pi<unclear>tr̥bhiḥ</unclear> saha pa<supplied reason="lost"><!-- CHECK if <unclear> applies better.-->cyate</supplied></l>
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<lg n="2" met="anuṣṭubh">
<l n="a"><supplied reason="lost"><!-- CHECK if <unclear> applies better.-->ṣa</supplied><unclear>ṣṭiṁ varṣa-sahasrā</unclear><supplied reason="lost"><!-- CHECK if <unclear> applies better.-->ṇi</supplied></l>
<l n="b"><lb n="31"/>svargge vasati bhūmidaḥ</l>
<l n="c">Ākṣeptā cānuma<supplied reason="lost"><!-- CHECK if <unclear> applies better.-->ntā</supplied> ca</l>
<l n="d">tāny eva narake vaseT<!--
The halanta T does not look very different from a regular ta, but perhaps it is sightly lower, and the top of it is linked to the left to the previous character.
--></l>
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<l n="a">kr̥śāya kr̥śa-vr̥ttāya</l>
<l n="b">vr̥tti-kṣīṇāya sīda<supplied reason="lost"><!-- CHECK if <unclear> applies better.-->te</supplied></l>
<l n="c"><unclear>bhūmiṁ</unclear> <lb n="32"/>vr̥ttikarī<sic>n</sic> da<sic>tv</sic>ā</l>
<l n="d">s<supplied reason="lost"><!-- CHECK if <unclear> applies better.-->ukh</supplied>ī bhavati kāmada<supplied reason="omitted">ḥ</supplied></l>
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<lg n="4" met="anuṣṭubh">
<l n="a">bahubhi<unclear>r vasudhā</unclear> bhuktā</l>
<l n="b">bhujyate ca punaḥ puna<supplied reason="omitted">ḥ</supplied></l>
<l n="c">yasya yasya yadā bhū<supplied reason="lost"><!-- CHECK if <unclear> applies better.-->mis</supplied></l>
<l n="d"><supplied reason="lost"><!-- CHECK if <unclear> applies better.-->tasya</supplied> <unclear>tasya</unclear> <lb n="33"/>ta<unclear>dā</unclear> phalaṁ</l>
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<lg n="5" met="anuṣṭubh">
<l n="a">pūrvva-dattāṁ dvijātibhyo</l>
<l n="b">yatnād <choice><sic>rakṣya</sic><corr>rakṣa</corr></choice> <supplied reason="lost"><!-- CHECK if <unclear> applies better.-->yu</supplied><unclear>dhi</unclear>ṣṭhira</l>
<l n="c">mahīm mahimatāṁ śreṣṭha</l>
<l n="d">dānā<unclear>c chreyo nu</unclear><supplied reason="lost"><!-- CHECK if <unclear> applies better.-->pāla</supplied><unclear>na</unclear><unclear cert="low">m</unclear><!--
Sanyal reads the end as pālanam Iti, supplying daṇḍas in between. His editor notes that it seems to be pālanam=iti. I can make out na, and there is something that looks like an i mātrā after it, which probably belongs to mi.
--></l>
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<p>iti<supplied reason="subaudible">.</supplied> <unclear cert="low">likhitaṁ</unclear><!--
I'm pretty sure there are 3 or 4 further characters after the end of the verse. None of the previous editors transcribe or mention it. It looks like #isatina, but I'm transcribing it as a very tentative likhitaṁ.
--><lb n="34"/>sa<unclear>ṁ</unclear> <del><unclear cert="low">mba</unclear></del><sic>vv</sic>aT <space/> <num value="120"><g type="numeral">100</g> <g type="numeral">20</g></num> <space quantity="6" unit="character"/> vaiśākha di <num value="1">1</num><!--
Line 34 is squeezed into very little vertical space and contains characters only in two places, near the centre of the line and near the end. The word sa(ṁ)vvat begins below ma of mahīm; vaiśākha begins below the yo of chreyo.
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Between sa(ṁ) and vvat there is another character that Sircar_1943a:24n44 takes to be a deleted character, perhaps mba. Other editors do not mention it.
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The halanta T of saṁvvat is again linked at the top to the previous character.
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Sircar and Agrawala read the date as 120. But N. B. Sanyal in Sen_1942:xii.n says it is 121, and Sanyal_1955-56 reiterates 121. Sircar_1943a:26n says he is aware of the faint scratches Sanyal sees as "1" but these are much further away from 20 than 20 is from 100 and thus they cannot be a third numeral. Sanyal_1955-56:66n3 insists that "The sign is distinct in the original" (to which he had access, while Sircar worked from inked impressions alone), while Sanyal's editor (ibid.) says "The reading 20 1 seems be [sic] supported neither by the original nor by the impressions" But this needs checking in hardcopy; my digital versions are badly scanned at the critical point and the note may not in fact say "20 1" but something else, and may have the missing "to" after seems. In my opinion the sign does look quite distinct, but I agree completely with Sircar that if it were a 1 rather than an accidental scratch, it would be much closer to the 20. The character above the place where the 1 should be (tāṁ of mahimatāṁ) does extend down to this line, but there would have been plenty of space below it to fit in a horizontal dash. I should also add that this line is much longer than the 1 after vaiśākha at the end of this line and the 2-s above in this plate, which again implies that it's an accidental scratch.
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