# Nalanda Seal Inscription of Avantivarman

Dániel Balogh

Author of digital edition: Dániel Balogh

Identifier: DHARMA_INSSiddham00149

Repository: SIDDHAM (siddham)

File path: XML-Provisional/DHARMA_INSSiddham00149.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

⟨1⟩ catus-samudrātikkrānta-k(ī)rtt(i)ḥ
prat(ā)p(ā)nur(ā)go(pa)[natānya-rājo
varṇṇāśrama-vyavasthāpana-pravr̥tta]⟨2⟩-cakkraś cakkradhara Iva prajānām
artti-haraḥ śrī-[mahārāja-harivarmmā tasya puttras tat-pādānudhyāto
jaya]⟨3⟩sv(ā)minī-bhaṭṭārikā-devyām utpannaḥ śrī-[mahārājādityavarmmā
tasya puttras tat-pādānudhyāto harṣaguptā]⟨4⟩-bhaṭṭārikā-devyām utpannaḥ
śrī-mahārāj[eśvaravarmmā tasya puttras tat-pādānudhyāta
Upaguptā-bhaṭṭārikā]⟨5⟩-devyām utpann(o)
mahārājādhirā[ja-śrī]-īśānavarmmā tasya puttras ta[t-pādānudhyāto] ⟨6⟩
lakṣmīvatī-bhaṭṭārikā-ma(hādevyā)m utpanno
mahārājādhirāja-śrī-śarvvavarmmā ⟨7⟩ tasya puttras tat-pādā[nudhyāta
Indra]-bhaṭṭārikā-mahādevyām utpannaḥ parama-māheśvar(o) ⟨8⟩
[mahārā]jādhirāja-śrī-avantivarmmā maukhariḥ

## Bibliography

First reported and edited in Ghosh [1942] 1937–1938, № A.

Originally encoded for Siddham in the project Beyond Boundaries (Grant
Agreement No. 609823) by Dániel Balogh (2019, № IN00149). Encoding
updated to DHARMA conventions by Dániel Balogh.

### Secondary

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.6.