# Khoh Charter 1 of Hastin, year 156

Dániel Balogh

Author of digital edition: Dániel Balogh

Identifier: DHARMA_INSSiddham00077

Repository: SIDDHAM (siddham)

File path: XML-Provisional/DHARMA_INSSiddham00077.xml

Language: Sanskrit [Southern Brāhmī (unspecified)]

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## Edition

### Seal

⟨1⟩ śrī-mahārāja-hastinaḥ

### Plates

⟨Page 1v⟩ ⟨1⟩ namo mahādevāya|| svasti⟨.⟩ ṣaṭpañcāśottare bda-śate
gupta-nr̥pa⟨2⟩-rājya-bhuktau mahā-vaiśākha-sāmbatsare{|}
kārttika-māsa-śukla-pakṣa-tr̥tīyā⟨3⟩yām⟨.⟩ Asyā¿n? divasa-pūrvvāyāṁ
nr̥pati-parivrājaka-kulotpannena{|} mahā⟨4⟩rāja-devāḍhya-pranaptrā
m¿ā?hārāja-dāmodara-sutena ⟨5⟩
go-sahasra-hasty-aśva-hiraṇyāneka-bhūmi-pradena
guru-pitr̥-mātr̥-pūjā-tatpare⟨6⟩ṇātyanta-deva-brāhmaṇa-bhaktena{||}
naika-samara-śata{ta}-vijayinā sva-va¿n?śā⟨7⟩moda-kareṇa
mahārāja-śrī-hastinā sva-puṇyāpyāyanārtham ātmānaṁ
sva⟨8⟩rgga-sopāna-paṅktibhir āro¿h?ayatā
brāhmaṇa-vāj¿isi?neya-mādhya⟨9⟩ndina-kautsa-sagottra gopasvāmī
bhavasvāmī| sandhyāputtra| divākara⟨10⟩dattaḥ bhāskaradatta|
sūryyadattasya vasuntaraṣaṇḍika-grāmo ⟨11⟩ tisr̥ṣṭaḥ||

samantād garttā⟨.⟩ Uttare paścim¿o?⟨e⟩na ⟨Page 2r⟩ ⟨12⟩ pūrvva-bh¿u?ktā
m¿ā?ryyādāḥ⟨.⟩ sa¿ṁn?dhyāputtra-pramukhānāṁ sodraṅgaḥ soparikaraḥ ⟨13⟩
A-cāṭa-bhaṭa-prāveśyaḥ cora-varjjaM

tad asmat-kulotthaiḥ mat-pāda-piṇḍopajī⟨14⟩vibhir vvā kālāntareṣv api na
vyāghātaḥ kāryaḥ⟨.⟩ Evam ¿ājñāpta?⟨ājñapte⟩ yo nyathā ku⟨15⟩ryāt tam
ahaṁ dehāntara-gato pi mahatāvaddhyānena ¿nirddahed?⟨nirddaheyam⟩⟨.⟩
uktaṁ ca bhagavatā pa⟨16⟩ramarṣiṇā veda-vyāsena|

1. Anuṣṭubh

pūrvva-dattāṁ dvijātibhyo
yatnād rakṣ{y}a yudhiṣṭhira{ḥ}
⟨17⟩ mah¿i?ṁ mahimatāṁ śreṣṭha
dānāc chreyo nupālana¿ṁm?

2. Anuṣṭubh

bahubhir vvasudhā bhuktā
rā⟨18⟩jabhiḥ sagarādibhiḥ
yasya yasya yadā bhūmis
tasya tasya tadā phalaṁ

3. Anuṣṭubh

⟨19⟩ ṣaṣṭiṁ ¿b?arṣa-sahasrāṇi
svargge modati bhūmidaḥ
Acchettā cānuma⟨20⟩ntā ca
tāny eva narake vased

iti|| likhitañ ca vakkrāmātya⟨21⟩-[pra]naptrā
bhogikāmātya-naradatta-naptrā bhogika-ravidatta-puttr[eṇa]
sūryya⟨22⟩datteneti⟨.⟩ dūtako bhāgrahaḥ

## Bibliography

First mentioned in Thomas 1850, p. 12, n. 4. Noticed (by Thomas), with
translation (combined with INSSiddham00078) by H. H. Wilson, in Prinsep
& Thomas 1858, pp. 251–252. First edited in Hall 1861. Hall’s
translation reprinted in Cunningham 1879, p. 11 (No. 1), with eye copy
of the passage containing the date (plate IV/1). Re-edited in Fleet
1888. Summarised in Trivedi & Trivedi 2001, pp. 42–43 (No. 1).

Originally encoded for Siddham in the project Beyond Boundaries (Grant
Agreement No. 609823) by Dániel Balogh (2019, № IN00077). 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 21.

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 1282.