# Vadathika Cave Inscription of Anantavarman

Dániel Balogh

Author of digital edition: Dániel Balogh

Identifier: DHARMA_INSSiddham00153

Repository: SIDDHAM (siddham)

File path: XML-Provisional/DHARMA_INSSiddham00153.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

⟨01⟩ *

1. Śārdūlavikrīḍita

⟨1⟩ Āsīt sarvva-mahīkṣitā⟨ṁ⟩ manur iva kṣattra-sthiter ddeśikaḥ_
śrīmān matta-gajendra-khela-gamanaḥ śrī-yajñavarmmā nr̥paḥ
⟨2⟩ yasyāhūta-sahasra-nettra-viraha-kṣāmā sadaivādhvaraiḥ_
paulomī ciram aśru-pāta-malināṁ dh¿ā?⟨a⟩tte kapola-śriyaṁ||

2. Śārdūlavikrīḍita

⟨3⟩ śrī-śārdūla-nr̥pātmajaḥ para-hitaḥ śrī-pauruṣaḥ śrūyate|
loke candra-marīci-nirmmala-guṇo yo nantavarmmābhidh¿ā?⟨a⟩ḥ
⟨4⟩ dr̥ṣṭādr̥ṣṭa-vibhūti kartr̥-varadaṁ tenādbhutaṁ kāritaṁ|
vimvaṁ bhūtapater guhāśritam idaṁ devyāś ca pāyāj jagaT||

3. Sragdharā

⟨5⟩ A¿n?sānt-ākr̥ṣṭa-śārṅga-pravitata-saśara-jyā-sphuran-maṇḍal-ānta-_
vyakta-bhrū-bhaṅga-lakṣma-vyatikara-śavalākhaṇḍa-vaktrendu-vimva⟨ḥ⟩|
⟨6⟩ Antāyānantavarmmā smara-sadr̥śa-vapur jjīvite ni⟨ḥ⟩spr̥hābhiḥ_
dr̥ṣṭa⟨ḥ⟩ sthitvā mr̥gībhiḥ suciram animiśa-snigdha-mugdhekṣaṇābhi⟨ḥ⟩||

4. Mandākrāntā

⟨7⟩ Atyākr̥ṣṭāt kurara-viruta-sparddhinaḥ śārṅga-yantrā__d
veg-āviddhaḥ pravitata-guṇād īritaḥ sauṣṭhavena|
⟨8⟩ dūra-prāpī vimathita-gajodbhrānta-vājī pravīro__
vāṇo ri-strī-vyasana-padavī-deśiko nanta-nāmn⟦ā⟧⟨⟨aḥ⟩⟩||

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vi(de)śavasu

## Bibliography

First noticed (translation only) in Wilkins 1790, pp. 168–169. Eye copy
published in Kittoe 1847 (plate 10 next to page 410). Transliteration by
Rajendralal Mitra (along with a reprint of Wilkins’s translation) in No
name 1847. Re-edited in Fleet 1888. Corrections in Kielhorn 1891, pp.
189–190.

Originally encoded for Siddham in the project Beyond Boundaries (Grant
Agreement No. 609823) by Dániel Balogh (2019, № IN00153). 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 49.

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 1604.

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.2.