# Khoh Charter of Jayanātha, year 177

Dániel Balogh

Author of digital edition: Dániel Balogh

Identifier: DHARMA_INSSiddham00083

Repository: SIDDHAM (siddham)

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Language: Sanskrit [Southern Brāhmī (unspecified)]

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## Edition

⟨Page 1v⟩ ⟨1⟩ svasty⟨.⟩ uccakalpān mahārājaughadeva◯s tasya puttras
tat-pādānudhyāto mahā⟨2⟩devyāṁ kumārad(e)vyām utpanno
mahārāja-◯kumāradevas tasya puttras tat-p¿a?⟨ā⟩dānudhyāto ⟨3⟩ mahādevyāṁ
jayasvāminyām utpanno mahārāja-jayasvām¿i? tasya puttras
tat-pādānudhyāto ⟨4⟩ mahādevyāṁ rāmadevyām utpanno mahārāja-vyāghras
tasya puttras tat-p¿a?⟨ā⟩dānudhyāto mahā⟨5⟩devy¿a?⟨ā⟩m ajjhitadevyām
utpanno mahārāja-jayanāthaḥ kuśal¿i? dhavaṣaṇḍikāyā(ṁ) vrāhma⟨6⟩ṇādīn
kuṭumvinaḥ kārukāṁś ca samājñāpayati

viditaṁ vo stu yathaiṣa grāmo mayā⟨7⟩candrārkka-samakālikaḥ
śāśātaneya-sarvvavāḍha-divira-tat-puttra-bhāgavata-gaṅga-ta⟨t⟩-puttra⟨8⟩-raṅkaboṭa-Ajagaradās¿a?⟨ā⟩nāṁ
sva-puṇyābhivr̥ddhaye bhagavat-pād¿a?⟨e⟩bhyaḥ dev¿a?⟨ā⟩grahāro
tisr̥ṣṭa⟨ḥ⟩⟨.⟩ ⟨9⟩ Ebhiś cāttra pratiṣṭhāpitaka-bhagavat-pādānāṁ
puttra-prapauttra-tat-puttrātikkrameṇa
khaṇḍa⟨10⟩-phuṭṭa-pratisaṁskara-vali-caru-sattra-pravarttanādy-anuṣṭhānena
ca sva-puṇyābhivr̥ddhiḥ ⟨11⟩ karttavyā

te yūyam eṣāṁ
samucita-śu(lka)-bhāga-bhoga-kara-hiraṇyādi-pratyāyopanayaṁ ⟨12⟩
kariṣyathājñā-śravaṇa-vidheyāś ca bhaviṣyatha⟨.⟩ ye
cāsmad-vaṁśotpadyamānaka-rājānas tair iyaṁ ⟨13⟩ datti⟨r⟩ nna vilopyā
Anumodan¿a?⟨ī⟩yā samucita-r¿o?⟨ā⟩jābhāvya-kara-pratyāyā na grāhyā⟨ḥ⟩
⟨Page 2r⟩ ⟨14⟩ cora-daṇḍa-varjyaṁ| kālānukālaṁ ca pratipā◯lanīya(ṁ)⟨.⟩
yaś caināṁ dattiṁ lopayet sa pa⟨ṁ⟩ca⟨15⟩bhir mmahā-pātakair upapātakaiś
ca saṁyuktaḥ ¿sya?⟨syād⟩⟨.⟩ Uktaṁ ca mahābhārate bhagavatā veda-vyāsena
⟨16⟩ vyāsena

1. Anuṣṭubh

sva-dattāṁ para-dattā¿m? vā
yatnād rakṣa yudhiṣṭhira
mahī(ṁ) mahīmatāṁ śreṣṭha
dānāc chreyo nupāla⟨17⟩naṁ

2. Anuṣṭubh

prāyeṇa hi narendrāṇāṁ
vidyate nāśubhā gatiḥ
pūya¿t?⟨n⟩te te tu satata(ṁ)
prayacchanto va(sundha)⟨18⟩rā⟨ṁ⟩||

3. Anuṣṭubh

ṣaṣṭiṁ varṣa-sahasrāṇi
svargge modati bhūmidaḥ
ācchettā cānumantā ca
tāny (e)va narake vaseT

4. Anuṣṭubh

⟨19⟩ bahubhir vvasudhā bhuktā
rājabhiḥ sagarādibhi(ḥ|)
(ya)sya yasya yadā bhūmis
tasya tasya tadā phalaṁ

5. Anuṣṭubh

⟨20⟩ sarvva-sasya-samr̥ddhā¿(n t)?u
yo hareta vasundharā(ṁ|)
sa viṣṭhāyāṁ kr̥mi(r) bhūtvā
pitr̥bhiḥ saha ¿majyate?|

⟨21⟩ samvatsara-śate sapta-saptatyu⟨tta⟩re caittra-māsa-divase
dvā-viṁśatime likhitaṁ bhogika-phālgudattāmātya⟨22⟩{mātya}-naptrā
bhogika-varāhadinna-puttra-sāndhivigrahika-gallunā(|)
¿dūtakoparika?⟨dūtaka Uparika⟩-dīkṣita-gr̥ha⟨23⟩pati-sthapati-samrāṭ
charvvadattaḥ||

yattrāghāṭāḥ dhānyavāhika-pratyuddeśe garttā pālī ca| ⟨24⟩
durggamaṇḍala-pradeśe pālī⟨.⟩ suvarṇṇakakṣaka-pradeśe gopatha-(śaraḥ
Ardhena) ca p(ālī)⟨.⟩ ⟨25⟩ Āmuka-pradeśe garttā⟨.⟩
dāramaṇḍala-pradeś{r}e pālī⟨.⟩ vakravaṇa-prāveśya-maṇḍala-pradeśe
pālī⟨.⟩ ⟨26⟩ grāme yāvat-kūpaṁ praviṣṭā Iti

## Bibliography

First noticed and translated in Cunningham 1879, p. 13 (No. 4), with eye
copy of the passages containing the date (plate IV/6). First edited
(from the original) in Fleet 1888. Summarised in Trivedi & Trivedi 2001,
p. 49 (No. 2).

Originally encoded for Siddham in the project Beyond Boundaries (Grant
Agreement No. 609823) by Dániel Balogh (2019, № IN00083). 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 27.

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 1195.