Bhumara Pillar Inscription of Hastin and Śarvanātha

Author of digital edition: Dániel Balogh (daba).

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

Repository: SIDDHAM (siddham).

Identifier: DHARMA_INSSiddham00080.

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⟨1⟩ svasti⟨.⟩ mahādeva-pād(ā)-
⟨2⟩ nuddhyāt¿o? mahārāja-hasti-
⟨3⟩ -rājye Āmblode mahārāja-
⟨4⟩ -śarvvanātha-bhoge Indanā-
⟨5⟩ -naptrā vāsu-grāmika-puttra-
⟨6⟩ -śivadāsena vala-ya-
⟨7⟩ ṣṭir ucchritaḥ mahā-māghe
⟨8⟩ sa¿mba?tsare kārttika-māsa-
⟨9⟩ -divasa 10 8

Bibliography

First reported in Cunningham 1879, pp. 8–9 and translated ibid. P. 16 (No. 9), with eye copy (plate IV/9). First edited (from the original) in Fleet 1888. Date discussed in the Introduction of Fleet 1888, pp. 119–124, and Fleet 1890, p. 228. Date also discussed in Dikshit 1931–1932, p. 125. Corrections and further discussion in Sircar [1963] 1959–1960. Summarised in Trivedi & Trivedi 2001, pp. 45–46 (No. 5).

Originally encoded for Siddham in the project Beyond Boundaries (Grant Agreement No. 609823) by Dániel Balogh (2019, № IN00080). 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 24.

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 1661.

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Āmbloda is Fleet's reading of the toponym; it is indeed quite clear in Sircar's facsimile. Fleet also notes that the engraver seems to have first engraved hlo or perhaps ḍhlo, and then corrected it into mblo. There do seem to be some fainter lines, but I don't quite see hlo or ḍhlo; rather, the pre-correction character may have been l, perhaps an initially engraved āṁlode corrected to āmblode.

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Fleet reads the name as Indana; Sircar_1959-60a corrects to Indanā. The ā mātrā is indeed clear in Sircar's facsimile.

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Fleet emends vala to valaya, interpreting valaya it "boundary" and noting that vala-yaṣṭi or bala-yaṣṭi "gives no meaning". Sircar_1959-60a convincingly refutes the interpretation and points to the Supia pillar (IN00037) which describes itself as a balayaṣṭi.

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Fleet reads yaṣṭi u° and emends to yaṣṭir u°; Sircar does not correct the reading. Given that ru can often look like U, I believe we should exercise the benefit of doubt and read yaṣṭir u to begin with.

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<p>mahā-māghe<lb n="8"/>sa<sic>mba</sic>tsare kārttika-māsa<lb n="9" break="no"/>-divasa <num value="18"><g type="numeral">10</g> 8</num><!--

Fleet reads the date as 19, noting that the second figure may possibly be 7 or 8. Fleet_1888:274-275n2 (on the Bodhgayā inscription of Mahānāman) returns to the matter and says he sees no reason to revise his interpretation "that it is a rather straight and upright form of the symbol for 9". He admits that a similar sign occurs in the Morbi grant where it must be understood as 8 (also given in words), but that does not affect this one. Sircar_1959-60a flatly says the second digit is 8. This does seem a bit more likely, but far from certain and I could also imagine 5.

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