# Majhgawam Charter of Hastin, year 191

Dániel Balogh

Author of digital edition: Dániel Balogh

Identifier: DHARMA_INSSiddham00079

Repository: SIDDHAM (siddham)

File path: XML-Provisional/DHARMA_INSSiddham00079.xml

Language: Sanskrit [Southern Brāhmī (unspecified)]

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## Edition

### Seal

⟨1⟩ śrī¿r?-mmahārāja-hastinaḥ

### Plates

⟨Page 1v⟩ ⟨1⟩ namo mahādevāya|| svasty⟨.⟩ eka-navaty-uttare bda-◯śate
gupta-nr̥pa-rājya-bhuktau śrīmati
pravarddhamāna⟨2⟩-mahā-caittra-sa¿mb?atsare
māgha-māsa-bahula-pa◯kṣa-tr̥tīyāyām⟨.⟩ Asyā(ṁ)
sa¿mb?atsara-māsa-divasa-pūrvvā⟨3⟩yāṁ nr̥pati-parivrājaka-kulotpannena
mahārāja-devāḍhya-pranaptrā mahārāja-śrī-prabhaṁjana-naptrā
mahā⟨4⟩rāja-śrī-dāmodara-sutena
go-sahasra-hasty-aśva-hiraṇyāneka-bhūmi-pradena
guru-pitr̥-mātr̥-pūjā⟨5⟩-tatpareṇātyanta-deva-vrāhmaṇa-bhaktenāneka-samara-śata-vijayinā
sva-vaṁśāmoda-kareṇa mahā⟨6⟩rāja-śrī-hastinā
mahādevi-devasukha-vijñaptyā vālugartto nāma grāmaḥ
pūrvvāghāṭa-pariccheda-ma⟨7⟩ryādayā sodraṅgaḥ soparikaro
⟨’⟩c¿a?⟨ā⟩ṭa-bhaṭa-prāveśyaḥ mātā-pittror ātmanaś ca puṇyābhivr̥ddhaye
mahāde⟨8⟩vi-devasukhāṁ ca svargga-sopāna-paṅktim āropayatā
Aupamanyava-sagotrebhyaś chandoga-kauthuma⟨9⟩-sabrahmacāribhyo
¿mibhya?⟨’mībhyo⟩ brāhmaṇebhyaḥ⟨.⟩ govindasvāmi| gomikasvāmi _
devasvāmibhyaḥ putra-pau⟨10⟩trānvayopabhogyas tāmra-śāsanenāgrahāro
tisr̥ṣṭaḥ caura-varjjaM

tad asmat-kulotthair mmat-pāda⟨11⟩-piṇḍopajīvibhir vvā kālāntareṣv api
na vyāghātaḥ karaṇīyaḥ⟨.⟩ Evam ¿ājñāpte?⟨ājñapte⟩ yo nyathā ⟨22⟩ kuryāt
tam ahaṁ dehāntara-gato pi mahatāvaddhyānena nirddaheyam⟨.⟩ uktaṁ ca
bhagavatā parama⟨Page 2r⟩⟨13⟩[r]ṣ[i]ṇā veda-vyāsena vyāsena||

1. Anuṣṭubh

pūrvva-dattāṁ dvijātibhyo
yatnād rakṣa yudhiṣṭhira
mahī⟨ṁ⟩ ⟨14⟩ mahimatāṁ śreṣṭha
dānāc chreyo nupālanaṁ|

2. Anuṣṭubh

vahubhir vvasudhā bhuktā
rājabhiḥ sagarādibhiḥ
ya⟨15⟩sya yasya yadā bhūmis
tasya tasya tadā phalaṁ

3. Anuṣṭubh

ṣaṣṭiṁ varṣa-sahasr(ā)ṇi
svargge modati bhūmidaḥ
⟨16⟩ Ākṣeptā cānumantā ca
tāny eva narake vaseT

4. Anuṣṭubh

sva-dattāṁ para-dattām ¿b?ā
yo hareta vasundharāM
⟨17⟩ sa viṣṭhāyāṁ ¿kkri?mir bhūtvā
pitr̥bhiḥ saha majjate

5. Anuṣṭubh

apānīyeṣv araṇyeṣu
śuṣka-koṭara-vāsinaḥ
⟨18⟩ kr̥ṣnāhayo bhijāyante
pūrvva-dāyaṁ haranti ye||

likhitañ ca vakkrāmātya-pranaptr̥-naptrā ⟨19⟩ bhogika-naradatta-pranaptrā
ravidatta-naptrā sūryadatta-puttreṇa mahā-
sāndhiviggrahika⟨20⟩-vibhudatteneti⟨.⟩ mahāvalādhikr̥ta-nāgasi¿ṅ?ho
dūtakaḥ

sambat 100 90 1 ⟨21⟩ māgha di 3

## Bibliography

First reported in Cunningham 1879, p. 7 and translated ibid. P. 13-14
(No. 5), with eye copy of the passage containing the date (plate IV/3).
First edited (from the original) in Fleet 1888. Summarised in Trivedi &
Trivedi 2001, pp. 44–45 (No. 4).

Originally encoded for Siddham in the project Beyond Boundaries (Grant
Agreement No. 609823) by Dániel Balogh (2019, № IN00079). 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 23.

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 1291.