# Khoh Initial Charter Fragment of Śarvanātha

Dániel Balogh

Author of digital edition: Dániel Balogh

Identifier: DHARMA_INSSiddham00086

Repository: SIDDHAM (siddham)

File path: XML-Provisional/DHARMA_INSSiddham00086.xml

Language: Sanskrit [Southern Brāhmī (unspecified)]

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## Edition

⟨1⟩ *svasty⟨.⟩ uccakalpā¿t m?ahārājaughadevas ta◯sya puttras
tat-pādānuddhyāto mahādevyāṁ ⟨2⟩ kumāradevyām utpanno
mahārāja-kumā◯rade(vas tasya pu)ttras ta(t-pā)dānuddhyāto ⟨3⟩
mahādevyā⟨ṁ⟩ jayasvāminyām utpanno mahārāja-(jayasvāmī tasya) puttras
tat-pādānu⟨4⟩ddhyāto mahādevyā⟨ṁ⟩ rāmadevy¿a?⟨ā⟩m utpanno
mahārāja-(vyāghras tasya puttra)s tat-pādānuddhyāto ⟨5⟩ mah¿a?⟨ā⟩devyām
ajjhitadevyām ¿a?⟨u⟩tpanno mahārāja-jaya(nāthas tasya) puttras
tat-p¿a?⟨ā⟩dānuddhyā⟨6⟩to mahād¿ā?⟨e⟩vyā[ṁ] mur¿ū?ṇḍasvāminyām utpanno
mahārā(ja-śarvvanā)thaḥ kuśalī (v)oṭa⟨7⟩santika-dhavaṣaṇḍikārddhe
brāhmaṇādīn kuṭumbinas sarvva-kārū¿n?ś ca samājñāpayati

⟨8⟩ viditaṁ vo stu yathaiṣa ggrāmārddho mayācandrārkka-samakālik¿ā?⟨a⟩s
s¿a?draṅgaḥ⟨9⟩soparikaraḥ A-c¿a?⟨ā⟩ṭa-bhaṭa-prāveśya⟨ḥ⟩
sarvva-¿karātyagaḥ?⟨kara-tyāgaḥ⟩
¿dro?⟨so⟩tpadyamānaka-¿pi?⟨pra⟩tyāya⟨10⟩-sametaḥ
¿choḍugomika?⟨choḍugomikāya⟩
etat-puttra-prapauttra-tatputtrādy-anukkrameṇa
tāṁbra⟨11⟩-śāsanenātisr̥ṣṭaḥ⟨.⟩ Anenāpi mayānumoditaṁ
yathopari-likhitaka⟨12⟩-kkrameṇaiva bhagavatyāḥ piṣṭapurik¿a?-devyāḥ
khaṇḍa-phuṭṭa-pratisaṁskāra- ⟨13⟩ karaṇāya
vali-caru-sattra-pravarttanāya cātisr̥ṣṭas

te yūyam eṣāṁ ⟨14⟩ samucita-bhāga-bhoga-kara-hiraṇyādi-pratyāyopa
naya⟨ṁ⟩ kariṣyathājñā-śrava⟨15⟩ṇa-vidheyāś ca bhaviṣyatha⟨.⟩ ye
cāsmad-va¿n?śotpadyamānaka-rājānas tair iya⟨ṁ⟩ ⟨16⟩ dattir na
vilo¿k?⟨p⟩yānumodanīyā

## Bibliography

First noticed and translated in Cunningham 1879, pp. 15–16 (the first
half of Cunningham’s No. 8). First edited (from the original) in Fleet
1888. Summarised in Trivedi & Trivedi 2001, p. 50 (No. 6).

Originally encoded for Siddham in the project Beyond Boundaries (Grant
Agreement No. 609823) by Dániel Balogh (2019, № IN00086). 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 29.

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 1702.