# Nalanda Broken Seal Inscription of Śarvavarman

Dániel Balogh

Author of digital edition: Dániel Balogh

Identifier: DHARMA_INSSiddham00146

Repository: SIDDHAM (siddham)

File path: XML-Provisional/DHARMA_INSSiddham00146.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⟩ catus-samudrātikkrānta-kīrttiḥ pratāpānu[rā](go)panatānya-rāj¿ā?⟨o⟩
varṇṇāśrama-vyavastḥĀ⟨2⟩pana-pravr̥tta-cakkraś cakkradhara Iva
prajā(n)[ā]m artti-hara⟨ḥ⟩ śr¿i?⟨ī⟩-mahārāja-harivarmmā tasya ⟨3⟩
[puttra]s [t]at-pādānuddhy[ā]to jayasvāminī-bhaṭṭārikā-devyām utpannaḥ
śrī-mahārāj-ādityava⟨4⟩[rmmā tasya] puttras tat-p[ā]dānuddhyāto
harṣaguptā-[bhaṭṭā]rikā-devyām utpannaḥ śrī-mahārā⟨5⟩[jeśvarava](rm)m(ā)
tasya puttras tat-pādānuddhyāta u(pa)[g](u)ptā-bhaṭṭārikā-devyām utpanno
⟨6⟩ [mahārā]jādhirāja-śr¿i?⟨ī⟩-īśā[na-va]rmmā tasya puttras
tat-pādānuddhyāto lakṣmīva⟨7⟩[tī]-(bha)ṭṭārikā-mahāde[v]y[ā]m utpannaḥ
parama-māheśvaro ma⟨8⟩hārājādhir[ā](ja)-śrī-śarvvavarmmā maukhariḥ

## Bibliography

First reported by Hirananda Sastri in ARASI 1927–28, p. 139. Edited in
Sastri 1931–1932, pp. 73–74.

Originally encoded for Siddham in the project Beyond Boundaries (Grant
Agreement No. 609823) by Dániel Balogh (2019, № IN00146). Encoding
updated to DHARMA conventions by Dániel Balogh.

### Secondary

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 2081.

Thaplyal, Kiran Kumar. 1985. Inscriptions of the Maukharīs, Later
Guptas, Puṣpabhūtis and Yaśovarman of Kanauj. New Delhi: Indian Council
of Historical Research. Item I.B.4.