Karitalai Charter of Jayanātha, year 174

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⟨1⟩ *svasti. Uccakalpān mahārāja-oghadevas tasya puttras tat-pādānudhyāto mahā-

⟨2⟩ devyāṁ kumāradevyām utpanno mahārāja-kumāradevas tasya puttras tat-pād(ā)nudhyāt¿e?

⟨3⟩ mahādevyāṁ jayasvāminyām utpanno mah(ā)rāja-jayasvāmī tasya puttras tat-pād(ā)nudhyāt¿e?

⟨4⟩ mah(ā)devy(āṁ) rāmadevyām utpanno mahārāja-vy(ā)ghras tasya puttras tat-pādānudhyāto mahā-

⟨5⟩ devyām ajjhitadevyām utpanno mahārāja-jayanāthaḥ kuśalī nāgadeya-santaka-cha-

⟨6⟩ ndāpallikāyāṁ brāhmaṇādīn kuṭumbinaḥ kārukāṁś ca samājñāpayati ¿vadataṁm bo? stu

⟨7⟩ yathaiṣa grāmo mayā svapuṇyābhivr̥ddhaye kāṇva-sagottra-vājasaneya-mādhya-

⟨8⟩ ndi(n)a-brāhmaṇa-mittrasvāminaḥ sodraṅgaḥ sopar¿a?karaḥ A-cāṭa-bhaṭa-prāveśyaḥ

⟨9⟩ cora-varjjito tisr̥ṣṭas. te yūyam asya samucita-bhāga-bhoga-kara-pratyāyopa-

⟨10⟩ nayaṁ ka¿ka?ṣyatha Ājñā-śravaṇa-vidheyāś ca bhaviṣyatha ye cāsmad-va¿n?śotpadya-

⟨11⟩ mānaka-rājānas tair iyaṁ dattir nna vilopyānumodanīyā samucita-rājā-

⟨12⟩ bhāvya-kara-pratyāyā na grāhyāḥ. yaś caināṁ dattiṁ lopayeT sa pañcabhiḥ

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⟨13⟩ mahā-pātakair upapātakaiś ca saṁyukta syā¿n?. uktaṁ ca mahābhārate bhagavatā

⟨14⟩ vyāsena sva-dattāṁ para-dattāṁ vā yatnād rakṣa yudhiṣṭhira mahīm mahīmatāṁ

⟨15⟩ śreṣṭha dānāc chreyo nupālanaṁ bahubhir vvasudhā bhuktā rājabhiḥ sagarādibhiḥ yasya

⟨16⟩ yasya yadā bhūmis tasya tasya tadā phalaṁ prāyeṇa hi narendrāṇāṁ vidyate nā-

⟨17⟩ śubhā gatiḥ pūyante te tu satataṁ prayacchanto vasundharāṁ ṣaṣṭi-varṣa-sahasrā-

⟨18⟩ (ṇi) (svargge) modati bhūmidaḥ Acchettā cānumantā ca tāny eva narake vaseT

⟨19⟩ (āspho)ṭa¿l?anti pitaraḥ pravalganti pitāmahāḥ bhūmido smat-kule jātaḥ sa n¿o?

⟨20⟩ ttrā(tā bhaviṣya)ti sarvva-sasya-samr̥ddhā¿n? tu yo hareta vasundharāṁ śva-viṣṭhāyāṁ kr̥mi-

⟨21⟩ r bhūtvā (pitr̥bhis sa)ha majjati| sambatsara-¿g?ate catuḥ-saptate Āṣāḍha-māsa-

⟨22⟩ sya caturddaśa(me d)ivase. Asyāṁ divasa-pūrvvāyāṁ likhitaṁ mayā bhogika-rājyi-

⟨23⟩ lāmātya-naptr̥-(bhog)ika-dhruvadatta-puttra-bhogika-guñjakīrttinā. ¿dūtakoparika?-

⟨24⟩ -dīkṣita-gr̥hapati-sthapati-samrāṭ ccharvvadatta Iti|| sambat 100 70 4āṣā-

⟨25⟩ ḍha di 10 4|

Bibliography

First noticed and translated in Cunningham 1879, pp. 12–13 (No. 3), with eye copy of the passages containing the date (plate IV/5). First edited (from the original) in Fleet 1888. Also described in Hira Lal 1916, pp. 21–22. Summarised in Trivedi & Trivedi 2001, pp. 48–49 (No. 1).

Originally encoded for Siddham in the project Beyond Boundaries (Grant Agreement No. 609823) by Dániel Balogh (2019, № IN00082). 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 26.

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 1194.