Mathura Buddha Image Inscription of GE 230

Author of digital edition: Dániel Balogh (daba).

Language: Sanskrit (san) [Southern Brāhmī (unspecified) (brāhmī_southern_unspecified)].

Repository: SIDDHAM (siddham).

Identifier: DHARMA_INSSiddham00118.

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

Edition

⟨1⟩ deya-dharmo yaṁ ya(śā)-vihāre śākya-bhikṣuṇyar jayabhaṭṭāyār⟨.⟩ yad atra puṇyaṁ tad bhavatu sarvva-sa-

⟨2⟩ ¿tvanam? anuttara-jñānāvāptaye| saṁvatsaraḥ 200 30|

Bibliography

First published in Dowson 1871, p. 185 (No. 9) with a lithograph (Plate 2 No. 9, after p. 196). Dowson’s transcription reprinted with corrections in Cunningham 1873, p. 37 with a new lithograph (Plate 16 No. 23). Re-edited in Fleet 1888.

Originally encoded for Siddham in the project Beyond Boundaries (Grant Agreement No. 609823) by Dániel Balogh (2019, № IN00118). 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 70.

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 1309.

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In l1 Fleet reads yaśā as clear and emends to yaśo.

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In l1 Fleet emends to bhikṣuṇyā jayabhaṭṭāyāḥ, which is plausible, but I'm not really certain about the reading. The original stone Fleet worked with may be clearer, but on the rubbing, rja is not very convincing; just possibly, the reading could be śākya-bhikṣuṇy-akṣayabhaṭṭāyār. This leaves us with just one non-standard ending instead of two.

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The punctuation mark before the date is a single dash.

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For the date, I bow to Fleet's reading of 230, but Dowson reads it as 280, and the second numeral does look much more like 80 than 30 to me. See also next comment on the mark after the second numeral.

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After the date, Fleet reads a punctuation mark, while Dowson describes it as a faint mark which could be the remains of the numeral 1. From what I can see on the facsimile, it does not resemble either the dash before the date or a numeral 1. It could perhaps be the (p-like) top of a numeral 4, with the (k-like) bottom part lost. I could also imagine a numeral 8 or 9.

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