Gardez Inscription of Khiṅgāla

Version: (3083d2d), last modified (c200993).

Edition

⟨1⟩ * saṁvatsare ¿aṣṭatame? saṁ 8 jyeṣṭha-māsa-śukla-pakṣa-ti¿l?au ttrayodaśyāṁ śu di 10 3 ¿(r)i?kṣe viśākhe śubhe siṁhe (c/v) i[*]-

⟨2⟩ (k?)(e) (ma)haT pratiṣṭhāpitam idaṁ mahā-vināyaka parama-bhaṭṭāraka-mahārājādhirāja-śrī-ṣāhi-khiṁg(ā)l(au?)(?)(n?)a-ṣāhi-pādai() *

Bibliography

An unpublished report of the Archaeological Delegation of the Government of India to Afghanistan, by T. N. Ramachandran and Y. D. Sharma, was circulated in 1956, containing transcription, translation and a photograph of the image on Plate 2A. The text was first published in Tucci 1958, p. 328, n. 29, along with a detailed description of the image and a photo on page 323. The inscription was re-edited in Sircar [1966] 1963–1964, pp. 44–47. Discussed and re-edited with rubbing in Kuwayama 1991 (English version: Kuwayama 2002, pp. 249–259; the Sanskrit reading is by Hideaki Nakatani). Kuwayama 1976 (re-published as Kuwayama 2002, pp. 222–248) includes a description of the object and a detailed overview of approaches to its dating.

Originally encoded for Siddham in the project Beyond Boundaries (Grant Agreement No. 609823) by Dániel Balogh (2019, № IN00106). Encoding updated to DHARMA conventions by Dániel Balogh.