# Kura Inscription of Toramāṇa

Dániel Balogh

Author of digital edition: Dániel Balogh

Identifier: DHARMA_INSSiddham00101

Repository: SIDDHAM (siddham)

File path: XML-Provisional/DHARMA_INSSiddham00101.xml

Language: Sanskrit [Southern Brāhmī (unspecified)]

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## Edition

⟨1⟩
[rājādhi](rā)ja-mahārāja-toramāṇa-ṣāh(i)-jaū[vlasyā](bhivardha?)(mānarā)j(y)e
[ca. 2×] (saṁvatsare?) ⟨2⟩ [ca. 4×]me mārgaśira-māsa-śukla-dvitīyāyāM
candra-(ma-gra)(haṇa?) [ca. 3×] gaga[na?]⟨3⟩-(care ca?) vara [ca. 2×]
śuci-śāta-dhyānādhyayana-mokṣa-cittānukūle prad(i)(ṣṭa?) [ca. 8×]
[na]⟨4⟩kṣatre bhagavato buddhasya de_vātidevasya
sarva-pāpa-parikṣīṇa-sarva-puṇya-samudgata(sya) ⟨5⟩ tīrṇa-sa⟨ṁ⟩sārārṇava
sa¿tv?ānāṁ tārayitā daśa-bala-balina
cat(u)-vaiśāradya-catasra-prati(sa)(ṁvidā?) ⟨6⟩
Aṣṭādaśāveṇīkādbhuta-dharma-samanvāgatasya
sarva-sa¿tv?a-vatsala-mahā-kāruṇikasya bu⟨7⟩ddha-pramukha-cāturdiśe
bhikṣu-saṁghe deya-dharmo ya⟨ṁ⟩ vihāra pratiṣṭhāpana
naścīra-pati-praśastā⟨8⟩dārita-nāmadheya-viśeṣa-vr̥ddhiḥ
roṭṭa-jaya_vr̥ddhi Aneka-vihāra-svāmino satputreṇa⟨.⟩ yad atra puṇyaṁ tad
bhava(tu) ⟨9⟩ m(ā)tāpitro⟨ḥ⟩ āpāyaka-poṣaka-citrasya jaṁbudvīpasya
darśayitāro Agre-bhāva-pratyaṁśatāyāstu tathā vihāra-svāmino ⟨10⟩
roṭa-siddhavr̥ddhi sarveṣāṁ bhrātarāṇāṁ bhaginīnāṁ patnīnāṁ putrāṇāṁ
duhitr̥ṇāṁ mahārāja-toramāṇa-ṣāha-ja(ūvlaḥ) sa⟨11⟩rveṣāṁ devīnāṁ
rājaputrāṇāṁ rāja-duhitānāṁ ca sarva-sa¿tv?ānāṁ
A{||}nuttara-jñānāvāptaye⟨.⟩ Ayaṁ puna⟨r⟩ vihārasyo⟨12⟩pakaraṇa
cāturdiśe bhikṣu-saṁghe parigrahe Ācārya-(ma)hī-ś(āsakānāṁ)⟨.⟩
(sāddha?)ka-pu [ca. 2×] (treṇa) [ca. 2×] (ā)(cā?)(rya) ⟨13⟩ […]

## Bibliography

First reported and edited in Bühler 1892.

Originally encoded for Siddham in the project Beyond Boundaries (Grant
Agreement No. 609823) by Dániel Balogh (2019, № IN00101). Encoding
updated to DHARMA conventions by Dániel Balogh.

### Secondary

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