Gopika Cave Inscription of Anantavarman

Dániel Balogh

Identifier: DHARMA_INSSiddham00154

Repository: SIDDHAM (siddham)

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Edition

⟨01⟩ *

1. Śārdūlavikrīḍita

⟨1⟩ Unnidrasya saroruhasya sakalām ākṣipya śobhāṁ rucā|
sāvajñaṁ mahiṣāsurasya śirasi nyastaḥ kvaṇan-nūpuraḥ
⟨2⟩ devyā vaḥ sthira-bhakti-vāda-sadr̥śīṁ yuñjan phalenārthitāṁ|
diśyād accha-nakhā¿ṅ?śu-jāla-jaṭilaḥ pādaḥ padaṁ saṁpadāṁ||

2. Śārdūlavikrīḍita

⟨3⟩ Āsīd iṣṭa-samr̥ddha-yajña-mahimā śrī-yajñavarmmā nr̥paḥ|
prakhyāt¿ā?⟨o⟩ vimalendu-nirmmala-yaśā⟨ḥ⟩ kṣāttrasya dhāmnaḥ padaṁ|
⟨4⟩ prajñānānvaya-dāna-vikkrama-guṇair yo rājakasyāgraṇī⟨ḥ⟩|
bhūtvāpi prakr̥ti-stha Eva vinayād akṣobhya-sa¿tv?odadhi⟨ḥ⟩||

3. Śārdūlavikrīḍita

⟨5⟩ tasyodīrṇa-mahārṇavopama-raṇa-vyāpāra-lavdhaṁ yaśaḥ
tanvānaḥ kakudaṁ mukheṣu kakubhāṁ kī¿rt?yā jitedaṁ-yugaḥ
⟨6⟩ śrīmān vandhu-suhr̥j-jana-praṇayinām āśāḥ phalaiḥ pūraya(N)
puttraḥ kalpa-taror ivāpta-mahimā{ṁ} śārdūlavarmmā nr̥paḥ||

4. Śārdūlavikrīḍita

⟨7⟩ tasyānantam ananta-kīrtti-yaśaśo nantādi-varmmākhyayā|
khyātenāhita-bhakti-bhāvita-dhiyā puttreṇa pūtātmanā
⟨8⟩ Ā-sūrya-kṣiti-candra-tārakam iyaṁ puṇyāspadaṁ vāñcchatā|
vinyastādbhuta-vindhya-bhūdhara-guhām āśritya kātyāyanī||

5. Śārdūlavikrīḍita

⟨9⟩ dhautā¿ṅ?ho-mala-paṅka-doṣam amalair māhānadair amvubhiḥ
vyādhūtopavana-priyaṅgu-bakulair āmoditaṁ vāyubhi(ḥ)
⟨10⟩ kalpāntāvadhi-bhogyam ucca-śikhari-cchāyāvr̥tārkka-dyutiṁ|
⟦[––]⟧-grāmam analpa-bhoga-vibhavaṁ ramyaṁ bhavānyai dadau||

Bibliography

First noticed (with an eye copy [next to p279] and a translation by
Charles Wilkins [pp282-283]) in Harrington 1788. Published (with
transcript and translation by Kamalākānta Vidyālankār, and an eye copy
[Plate 34, next to p672]) in Prinsep 1837, pp. 672–674.

Originally encoded for Siddham in the project Beyond Boundaries (Grant
Agreement No. 609823) by Dániel Balogh (2019, № IN00154). 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 50.

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 1605.

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.3.