# Khoh Charter of Saṃkṣobha, year 209

Dániel Balogh

Author of digital edition: Dániel Balogh

Identifier: DHARMA_INSSiddham00081

Repository: SIDDHAM (siddham)

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Language: Sanskrit [Southern Brāhmī (unspecified)]

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

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### Plates

⟨Page 1v⟩ ⟨1⟩ *namo bhagavate vāsudevāya|| svasti⟨.⟩ ◯ navottare
bda-śata-dvaye gupta-nr̥pa-r(ā)jya-bhuktau ⟨2⟩ śrīmati
pravarddhamāna-vijaya-rājye ma◯hāśvayuja-sa⟨ṁ⟩vatsare caitra-māsa-śukla-
⟨3⟩ pakṣa-trayodaśy⟨ā⟩m⟨.⟩ Asyāṁ saṁbatsara-māsa-divasa-pūrvvāyā⟨ṁ⟩
caturddaśa-vidyā-sthāna-vidi⟨4⟩ta-paramārthasya kapilasy¿a?⟨ai⟩va
maharṣeḥ sarvva-ta¿tv?a-jñasya bharadvāja-sagotrasya
nr̥pa⟨5⟩⟦pi⟧⟨⟨ti⟩⟩-parivrājaka-suśarmmaṇaḥ kulotpannena
mahārāja-śrī-devāḍhya-putra-pranaptrā
mahārā⟨6⟩⟨⟨ja⟩⟩-śrī-prabhañjana-pranaptrā mahārāja-śrī-dāmodara-naptrā
go-sahasra-hasty-aśva-hiraṇyāneka⟨7⟩-bhūmi-pradasya
guru-pitr̥-mātr̥-pūjā-tatparasyātyanta-deva-vrāhmaṇa-bhaktasyāneka-samara⟨8⟩-śata-vijayinaḥ
sāṣṭādaśāṭavī-rājyābhyantaraṁ ḍa(bhā/hā)lā-rājyam anvayāgataṁ
sama(bhi?)⟨9⟩pālayi(ṣ)ṇor aneka-guṇa-vikhyāta-yaśaso
mahārāja-¿g?⟨ś⟩rī-hastinaḥ sutena ⟨10⟩
varṇṇāśrama-dharmma-sthāpanā-niratena
parama-bhāgavatenātyanta-pitr̥-bhaktena sva-vaṁ⟨11⟩śāmoda-kareṇa
mahārāja-śrī-saṁkṣobhe¿n?a mātā-pitror ātmanaś ca
puṇyābhi⟨12⟩v¿rir?ddhaye choḍugomi-vijñ(a)ptyā tam eva ca
sva(r)gga-sopāna-paṁktim āropaya⟨Page 2r⟩⟨13⟩tā bhagavatyāḥ piṣṭapuryāḥ
kārita◯ka-deva-kule vali-caru-satropayo⟨14⟩gārtha¿ḥ?⟨ṁ⟩
khaṇḍa-sphuṭita-saṁskārārtha◯ñ ca maṇināga-peṭhe
Opāṇi-grāma⟨15⟩syārddhaṁ cora-drohaka-varjja¿ḥ?⟨ṁ⟩
tāmra-śāsanenātisr̥ṣṭaṁ

tad asmat-kulotth¿au?⟨ai⟩ḥ ma⟨16⟩t-pāda-piṇḍopajīvibhir vvā kālāntareṣv
api na vyāghātaḥ kāryyaḥ⟨.⟩ Evam ¿ājñā?⟨ājña⟩⟨17⟩¿pta?⟨pte⟩ yo nyathā
kuryāt tam ahaṁ dehāntara-gato pi mahatāvadhyānena nirddaheyaṁ⟨.⟩ ⟨18⟩
Uktaṁ ca bhagavatā paramarṣiṇā veda-vyāsena vyāsena{ḥ}

1. Anuṣṭubh

pūrvva-dattāṁ dvijātibhyo
⟨19⟩ yatnād rakṣa yudhiṣṭhira{ḥ}
mahī¿m? mahimatā(ṁ) śreṣṭha
dānāc chreyo nupālana¿ḥ?⟨ṁ⟩

2. Anuṣṭubh

¿v?ahubhi¿ḥ? ⟨20⟩ vasudhā bhuktā
rājabhis sagarādibhiḥ
yasya yasya yadā bhūmis
tasya tasya tadā ⟨21⟩ phalaṁ(|)

3. Anuṣṭubh

ṣaṣṭiṁ varṣa-sahasrāṇi
svargge modati bhūmidaḥ
Ākṣeptā cānumantā ca
tāny e⟨22⟩va narake vaseT

4. Upajāti

bhūmi-pradānān n¿ā?⟨a⟩ paraṁ pradānaṁ
dānād viśiṣṭaṁ paripāla⟨na⟩¿(n t)?(u)
⟨23⟩ sarvve tisr̥ṣṭā(ṁ) paripālya bhūmi(ṁ)
nr̥pā nr̥gādy(ā)s tridivaṁ prapannāḥ||

likhita(ṁ)ñ ca ⟨24⟩ jīvita-naptrā bhujaṁgadāsa-putreśvaradāseneti
svamukhājñā

caitra di 20 9

## Bibliography

First noticed and translated in Cunningham 1879, p. 15 (No. 7), with eye
copy of the passages containing the date (plate IV/4). First edited
(from the original) in Fleet 1888. Summarised in Trivedi & Trivedi 2001,
pp. 46–47 (No. 7).

Originally encoded for Siddham in the project Beyond Boundaries (Grant
Agreement No. 609823) by Dániel Balogh (2019, № IN00081). 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 25.

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 1298.

Sircar, Dines Chandra. 1965. Select inscriptions bearing on Indian
history and civilization. Volume I: from the sixth century B.C. to the
sixth century A.D. 2nd edition revised and enlarged. Calcutta:
University of Calcutta. Book III, item 50.

Goyal, Śrīrām. 1993. गुप्तकालीन अभिलेख/Guptakālīna Abhilekha (Inscriptions
of the Gupta Age). Jodhpur: Kusumanjali Prakashan. Items 339-340.