# Mathura Pedestal Inscription of the Time of Skandagupta

Dániel Balogh

Author of digital edition: Dániel Balogh

Identifier: DHARMA_INSSiddham00109

Repository: SIDDHAM (siddham)

File path: XML-Provisional/DHARMA_INSSiddham00109.xml

Language: Sanskrit [Southern Brāhmī (unspecified)]

Commit: 2026-09-16 10:40 (3083d2d), last modified 2026-09-16 09:24
(c200993)

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## Edition

⟨1⟩ saṁvvatsara-śate paṁca{s}-tri[ṁ]śottaratame 100 30 5 puṣya-māse
divase vi[ṁ]ś[e] di 20 ⟨.⟩ deya-dharm[o] yaṁ vihāra-svāminy[ā] ⟨2⟩
devtāyā⟨ḥ⟩⟨.⟩ yad atra puṇyaṁ tad bhavatu mātā-pitroḥ sarvva-sa¿tv?ānāñ
ca Anuttara-jñānāptaye||

1. Śārdūlavikrīḍita

⟨3⟩ saubhāgyaṁ pratir¿u?⟨ū⟩patā guṇavatī kīrttis sapatna-kṣayaḥ
śrīman(t)o vibhavā bhavā⟨ḥ⟩ sukha-phalā nirvvāṇam aṁte śivaM
⟨4⟩ A-sta(bdhā)ni bhavanti dāna-niratau cittaṁ niyojyaikadā
[.]ī [––⏑] vi(c/t)āraṇa [⏑⏑] dhiyāṁ [––⏑––] [.]iyāM

## Bibliography

First published in Dowson 1871, pp. 184–185 (No. 8) with a lithograph
(Plate 2 No. 8, after p. 196). Dowson’s transcription reprinted with
corrections in Cunningham 1873, pp. 36–37 with a new lithograph (Plate
16 No. 22). Re-edited in Fleet 1888.

Originally encoded for Siddham in the project Beyond Boundaries (Grant
Agreement No. 609823) by Dániel Balogh (2019, № IN00109). 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 63.

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 1275.

Goyal, Śrīrām. 1993. गुप्तकालीन अभिलेख/Guptakālīna Abhilekha (Inscriptions
of the Gupta Age). Jodhpur: Kusumanjali Prakashan. Items 193-195.