# Nandapur Charter of GE 169

Dániel Balogh

Author of digital edition: Dániel Balogh

Identifier: DHARMA_INSSiddham00133

Repository: SIDDHAM (siddham)

File path: XML-Provisional/DHARMA_INSSiddham00133.xml

Language: Sanskrit [Southern Brāhmī (unspecified)]

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

⟨Page 1r⟩ ⟨1⟩ svasty⟨.⟩ amvilagrāmāgrahārāt saviśvāsam adhikaraṇ¿ā?⟨a⟩m
jaṅgoyikā-grāme brāhmaṇottarān saṁvyavahā⟨2⟩ry-ādi-kuṭumvinaḥ kuśalam
anuvarṇṇya ¿bodhayanti?⟨bodhayati⟩ ¿likhanti?⟨likhati⟩ ca

vijnāpayati naḥ viṣaya-pati-chattramahaḥ ⟨3⟩ Icchāmy ahaṁ
sva-puṇyābhivr̥ddhaye
nanda-vaitheya-khaṭāpurāṇāgrahārika-cchāndoga-kāśyapa-sagottra-brāhmaṇ(ā)⟨4⟩[ca.
2×]-svāmine pañca-mahā-yajña-pravarttanāya
khila-kṣettra-kulya-vāpa-catuṣṭayaṁ krītvātisraṣṭuM⟨.⟩ ⟨5⟩ yuṣmad-viṣaye
ca samudaya-vāhyādy-astamva-khila-kṣettrāṇāṁ
śaśvad-ācandrārka-tāraka-bhojyā⟨nā⟩⟨6⟩m akṣaya-nīvyāḥ
dvi-dīnārikya-kulya-vāpa-vikkrayo nuvr̥ttas⟨.⟩ tad arhatha matto ṣṭau
dīnārān upa⟨7⟩saṁgr̥hya jaṅgoyikā-grāme
khila-kṣettra-kulya-vāpa-catuṣṭayam akṣaya-nīvyās tāmra-paṭṭena dātum
iti

⟨8⟩ yataḥ pustapāla-pradyotasi¿ṅ?ha-bandhudāsayor
a⟨⟨va⟩⟩dhāraṇayāvadhr̥tam astīha viṣaye
samudaya⟨9⟩-vāhyādy-astamva-khilakṣettrāṇām akiñcit-pratikarāṇāṁ
dvi-dīnārikya-kulya-vāpa-vikkrayo nuvr̥ttaḥ⟨.⟩ ⟨10⟩
Evam-vidhotpratikara-khila-kṣettra-vikraye ca na kaścid
rājārttha-virodhaḥ⟨.⟩ dīyamāne tu parama-bhaṭṭāraka⟨11⟩-pādānāṁ
dharmma-ṣaḍ-bhāgāvāptis⟨.⟩ tad dīyatām ity etasmād
viṣaya-pati-chattramahād aṣṭau dīnārān upa⟨12⟩saṁgr̥hya jaṅgoyikā-grāme
gorakṣita-tāmra-paṭṭa-dakṣiṇena gopāli-bhogāyā paścimena
khila⟨13⟩-kṣettra-kulya-vāpa-catuṣṭayaṁ dattaM⟨.⟩ ku 4

te yūyam evaṁ viditvā kuṭumvināṁ karṣaṇāvirodhi-sthāne ⟨14⟩
darvvī-karmma-hastenāṣṭaka-navaka-nalābhyām apaviñchya
cira-kāla-sthāyi-tuṣāṅgārādi-cihnaiś catur-ddi⟨15⟩ṅ-niyamita-saṁmānaṁ
kr̥tvā dāsyatha da¿tv?ā cākṣaya-nīvī-dharmmeṇa śaśvat-kālam
anupālayiṣyatha⟨.⟩ ⟨Page 1v⟩ ⟨16⟩ varttamāna-bhaviṣyaiś ca
saṁvyavahāribhir etad dharmmāpekṣayānupālayitavyam iti⟨.⟩ Uktañ ca
bhaga⟨17⟩(vatā vyā)se(na)

1. Anuṣṭubh

sva-dattāṁ para-dattāṁ vā
yo hareta vasundharāṁ
sa viṣṭhāyāṁ kr̥mir bhūtvā
pitr̥bhiḥ saha ⟨18⟩ pacyate

2. Anuṣṭubh

(ṣaṣṭiṁ) varṣa-sahasrāṇi
svarge modati bhūmidaḥ_
Ākṣeptā cānumantā ca
tāny eva na⟨19⟩rake vaseT

_ saṁ _ 100 60 9 _ vai śu di 7

## Bibliography

First reported and edited in Majumdar [1940] 1935–1936. Comments in
Ghosh [1942] 1937–1938.

Originally encoded for Siddham in the project Beyond Boundaries (Grant
Agreement No. 609823) by Dániel Balogh (2019, № IN00133). Encoding
updated to DHARMA conventions by Dániel Balogh.

### Secondary

Sircar, Dines Chandra. 1965. Select inscriptions bearing on Indian
history and civilization. Volume I: from the sixth century B.C. to the
sixth century A.D. 2nd edition revised and enlarged. Calcutta:
University of Calcutta. Book III, item 48a.

Goyal, Śrīrām. 1993. गुप्तकालीन अभिलेख/Guptakālīna Abhilekha (Inscriptions
of the Gupta Age). Jodhpur: Kusumanjali Prakashan. Items 296-299.