Lomasa Risi Cave Inscription of Anantavarman

Author of digital edition: Dániel Balogh (daba).

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

Repository: SIDDHAM (siddham).

Identifier: DHARMA_INSSiddham00152.

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⟨1⟩ bhūpānā⟨ṁ⟩ maukharīṇāṁ kulam atanu-guṇo laṁ-cakārātma-jātyā| śrī-śārdūlasya yo bhūj jana-hr̥daya-haro nantavarmmā su-puttraḥ
⟨2⟩ kr̥ṣṇasyākr̥ṣṇa-kīrttiḥ pravaragiri-guhā-saṁśritaṁ viṁvam etaT mūrtt⟦i⟧⟨⟨aṁ⟩⟩ loke yaśa⟨ḥ⟩ svaṁ racitam iva mudācīkarat kāṁtimat saḥ||
⟨3⟩ kālaḥ śattru-mahī-bhujāṁ praṇayinā¿ṁ I?cchā-phalaḥ pādapo| dīpaḥ kṣattra-kulasya naika-samara-vyāpāra-śobhāvataḥ
⟨4⟩ kāntā-citta-haraḥ smara-pratisamaḥ pātā vabhūva kṣiteḥ śrī-śārdūla Iti pratiṣṭhita-yaśā⟨ḥ⟩ sāmanta-cūḍāmaṇiḥ||
⟨5⟩ Utpakṣmānta-vilohitoru-tarala-spaṣṭeṣṭa-tārāṁ ruṣā| śrī-śārdūla-nr̥paḥ karoti viṣamāṁ yattra sva-dr̥ṣṭiṁ rip¿o?|
⟨6⟩ tattrākarṇṇa-vikr̥ṣṭa-śārṅga-śaradhi-vyastaś śaro ¿t?tāvahaḥ tat-puttrasya pataty ananta-sukha-dasyānantavarmma-śruteḥ||

Bibliography

First noticed (translation only) in Wilkins 1790, pp. 167–168. Published (with transcript and translation by Kamalākānta Vidyālankār, and an eye copy [Plate 36 No. 15, 16 and 17, next to p677]) in Prinsep 1837, pp. 674–676. Independently transliterated in Indraji 1884, p. 428, n. 55. Re-edited in Fleet 1888. The cave is described in Cunningham 1871, pp. 46–47 (and plates 18-20).

Originally encoded for Siddham in the project Beyond Boundaries (Grant Agreement No. 609823) by Dániel Balogh (2019, № IN00152). 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 48.

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 1603.

Thaplyal, Kiran Kumar. 1985. Inscriptions of the Maukharīs, Later Guptas, Puṣpabhūtis and Yaśovarman of Kanauj. New Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research. Item I.A.1.

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