Belora Charter Fragment A2 of Pravarasena II

Alternative title: Belora Plates or Pravarasena II.

Author of digital edition: Dániel Balogh (daba).

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

Repository: SIDDHAM (siddham).

Identifier: DHARMA_INSSiddham00159.

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Version: 2026-09-16 10:40 (3083d2d), last modified 2026-09-16 09:24 (c200993).

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⟨Page 2r⟩
⟨1⟩ satyārjjava-kāruṇya-śauryya-vikkrama-naya-vinaya-māhātmya-śrīma¿tv?a-dhīma⟨ttva⟩-pātragata-bhaktitva-
⟨2⟩ dharmma-vijayitva-ma(no)-nairmmalyādi-guṇai⟨ḥ⟩ samupetasya _ varṣaśatam-abhivarddhamāna-kośa-da-
⟨3⟩ ṇḍa-sādhana-sa(ntā)na-◯putra-paut¿r̥?ṇaḥ yudhiṣ¿v?ira-vr̥tte⟨ḥ⟩ vāk¿a?ṭakānām-mahārāja-śrī-p¿ri?thīvī¿s?e-
⟨4⟩ ¿n?asya s¿u?nor bhagavataś-cakkrapāṇeḫ prasād-opārj(j)ita-śrī-samudayasya{|} mahārāja-śrī-rudrasena-
⟨5⟩ sya s¿u?nor mmahārājādhirāja-śrī-devagupta-sutāyām prabhāvat¿i?guptāyām utpannasya śambhoḫ pra-
⟨6⟩ sāda-dhr̥t¿i?-kārtta-yugasya vākāṭakānām parama-māheśvara-mahārāja-śrī-pravarasenasya

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⟨7⟩ vacanā(T|) ś¿e?lapura-mārge Asi-bhukti-mahallalāṭa-grām¿e?ḥ pravareśvara-ṣadviśaka-vāṭa-
⟨8⟩ ka-vastavyāya{|} tait(t)irīyāya{|} kāśyapa-sagotra-śūryyasvāmine dattaḥ⟨.⟩ yato smat-sa¿t?takāḥ sarvvād⟨dh⟩ya-
⟨9⟩ kṣa-niy¿ā?ga-niyuktāḥ ◯ājñā-saṁcāri-kula-putrādhikr̥tā bhaṭāś chāt(t)rāś ca viśruta-pūrvvayājñay¿a?-
⟨10⟩ jñāpayitavyāḥ⟨.⟩◯ viditam astu vaḥ yathehāsmābhir ātmano dharmmāyu⟨r⟩-bbala vijayaiśvaryya-
⟨11⟩ v¿a?vr̥ddhaye{|} ihāmutra-hitārttham ātmānugrahāya{|} vaijayike dharmma-sthāne Apūrvva-dat⟨t⟩yā
⟨12⟩ Udaka-pūrvvam atisr̥ṣṭaḥ|*

Bibliography

First reported and edited in Mirashi 1937–1938. Discussed in Shastri 1997, pp. 13–16.

Originally encoded for Siddham in the project Beyond Boundaries (Grant Agreement No. 609823) by Dániel Balogh (2019, № IN00159). Encoding updated to DHARMA conventions by Dániel Balogh.

Secondary

Mirashi, Vasudev Vishnu. 1963. Inscriptions of the Vākāṭakas. Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum 5. Ootacamund: Archaeological Survey of India. Item 4.

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I number the pages of these Belora plates as they would have stood in a three-plate document, though I restart line numbers in each.

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The superfluous punctuation in l4 is probably a very short horizontal; not very clear in the rubbing.

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Instead of mmahārājādhirāja in l5, Mirashi only prints mmahārāja in CII, but his text is correct in EI24.

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I retain Mirashi's reading of ṣadviśaka in l7. He suggests the emendation ṣaḍviṁśati (and likewise for ṣadviṣati in IN00160:8). I believe we could very well read ṣaḍ both here and in IN00160; I don't expect ḍ to look conspicuously different from d in this script; compare ṣoḍaśy (read as such by Mirashi) in IN00158:1.

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In l8 Mirashi prints a double daṇḍa after vastavyāya and a single one after taittirīyāya. The former seems to be two dots one below the other; the latter a single dot. I transcribe both as single daṇḍas.

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<p>viditam astu vaḥ yathehāsmābhir ātmano dharmmāyu<supplied reason="omitted">r</supplied>-bbala vijayaiśvaryya-

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I follow Mirashi in reading āyu in l10, but there does seem to be something above bba so the originally inscribed text may actually have been rbba.

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The first punctuation mark in l11 is unrecognisable in the rubbing; it may be a single dot or short dash, or it may not be there at all. The second punctuation mark is a double dot (like a colon); Mirashi transcribes it as a double daṇḍa.

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In dharmma in l11, Mirashi prints rma in CII5; he correctly has rmma in EI24.

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The closing glyph in l12 is unclear in the rubbing; it seems to consist of two concentric circles surrounded by dots. Before it, there seems to be a short horizontal dash between the dots of the visarga, then possibly another dot or dash. After the circle, there are two or three very short verticals at centreline height, then a long horizontal dash at the same height.

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