Belora Charter Fragment B2 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).

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⟨1⟩ satyārjjava-kāruṇya-śauryya-vikrama-naya-vinaya-māhātm⟨y⟩a dhīma¿tv?a-pātra-gata-bhaktitva-dharmma-
⟨2⟩ vijayitva-mano-nai⟨r⟩mmalyādi-guṇa-samupetasya _ varṣa-śatam abhivarddhamāna-kośa-daṇḍa-sā-
⟨3⟩ dhana-santāna-putra◯-paut¿r̥?ṇaḥ yudhiṣṭhira-vr̥tter vākāṭakānām mahārāja-śrī-p¿ri?thiv¿i?¿s?e¿n?asya
⟨4⟩ sūno⟨r⟩ bhagavataḥ◯ {ś}cakkrapāṇeḫ prasādopārjjita-śrī-samudayasya m{m}ahārāja-śrī-rudra-
⟨5⟩ senasya sūnor mmahārājādhirāja-śrī-devagupta-sutāyā¿ḫ? prabhāvat¿i?guptāyām utpannasya
⟨6⟩ śambhoḫ prasā¿v?a-dhr̥t¿i?-kārtta-yugasya{|} vākāṭakānām parama-māheśvara-mah¿e?rāja-śrī-pravarase-

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⟨7⟩ ¿t?asya vacanā(T|) pākkaṇa-rāṣṭṭre dīrgghadrahaṁ {n}nāma grāma⟨ḥ⟩{|}_ śailapura-mārgge Asi-bhukti-
⟨8⟩ mahallamalāṭa-grāmaś ca _ evaṁ grāma-dvayaṁ{||} pravar¿a?śvara-ṣadviṣati-vāṭaka-vastavya-
⟨9⟩ taittir¿i?ya-kāśyapasagotra-⟦ṣ⟧⟨⟨s⟩⟩¿u?ryyasvāmin¿a? datta⟨M⟩(|) yato smat-santakāḥ sarvv¿a?ddhyakṣa-niyoga-
⟨10⟩ niyuktāḥ Ājñā-◯sañcāri-kula-putrādhikr̥tāḥ bhaṭāś chātrāś ca vi¿ṣr̥?ta-pūrvvayājñ⟨ay⟩ājñā-
⟨11⟩ payitavyā⟨ḥ⟩ viditam astu vaḥ yath¿ai?hāsmābhir ātmano dharmmāyur-bbala vijay¿a?śvaryya-vivr̥ddhaye{|} ihā-
⟨12⟩ mutra-hitārttham ātmānugrah¿a?ya vaij¿jai?ke dharmma-sthāne Apūrvva-dat⟨t⟩yā 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, № IN00160). 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 5.

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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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<lb n="4"/>sūno<supplied reason="omitted">r</supplied> bhagavataḥ<space type="binding-hole"/> <surplus>ś</surplus>cakkrapāṇeḫ prasādopārjjita-śrī-samudayasya m<surplus>m</surplus>ahārāja-śrī-rudra<lb n="5" break="no"/>senasya sūnor mmahārājādhirāja-śrī-devagupta-sutāyā<choice><sic>ḫ</sic><corr>m</corr></choice> prabhāvat<sic>i</sic>guptāyām utpannasya

<lb n="6"/>śambhoḫ prasā<choice><sic>v</sic><corr>d</corr></choice>a-dhr̥t<choice><sic>i</sic><corr>a</corr></choice>-kārtta-yugasya<surplus>|</surplus> vākāṭakānām parama-māheśvara-mah<choice><sic>e</sic><corr>ā</corr></choice>rāja-śrī-pravarase<pb n="2v" break="no"/><lb n="7" break="no"/><choice><sic>t</sic><corr>n</corr></choice>asya vacanā<unclear>T|</unclear><!--

In l2 Mirashi prints naimalyā° (emending to nairmalyā°) in both his editions; the correct reading is naimmalyā°.

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L4. Mirashi says the visarga of bhagavataḥ is superfluous; since the space is between the visarga and the ś, I prefer to delete the ś.

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In l5, Mirashi emends the upadhmānīya to an anusvāra; I prefer to emend to m (since that would have been joined to the next letter like an upadhmānīya). I should also note that this bit is very unclear in the rubbing; I can well imagine that the correct reading is, after all, simply mpra instead of fpra.

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The punctuation character in l6, if it is one, is a short horizontal dash.

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<lb n="8"/>mahallamalāṭa-grāmaś ca <space/> evaṁ grāma-dvayaṁ<surplus>||</surplus> pravar<choice><sic>a</sic><corr>e</corr></choice>śvara-ṣadviṣati-vāṭaka-vastavya-

<lb n="9"/>taittir<choice><sic>i</sic><corr>ī</corr></choice>ya-kāśyapasagotra-<subst><del rend="corrected">ṣ</del><add place="overstrike">s</add></subst><choice><sic>u</sic><corr>ū</corr></choice>ryyasvāmin<choice><sic>a</sic><corr>e</corr></choice> datta<supplied reason="omitted">M</supplied><unclear>|</unclear> yato smat-santakāḥ sarvv<choice><sic>a</sic><corr>ā</corr></choice>ddhyakṣa-niyoga-

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The punctuation after grāma in l7 is a blotch on the rubbing; proably a dash originally.

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I retain Mirashi's reading of ṣadviṣati in l8. He suggests the emendation ṣaḍviṁśati (and likewise for ṣadviśaka in IN00159:7). I believe we could very well read ṣaḍ both here and in IN00159; 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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The punctuation in l8 is a double horizontal dash.

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Mirashi prints taittiriya in l9 with a single t in CII5; his transliteration is correctly tti in EI24.

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There is a very small space after taittiriya.

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The superfluous punctuation in l11 is a dash close to baseline height.

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For ihā in l11, Mirashi prints iha in CII5; his text is correctly ihā in EI24.

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As Mirashi points out in both EI and CII, atisr̥ṣṭaḥ in l12 does not agree with grāmadvayam above. He only proposes a correction to atisr̥ṣṭam, but neglects to mention that this may in fact be circumstantial evidence that this plate is a forgery. (However, what he reads as a visarga may in fact be punctuation, and then we only have to supply a missing anusvāra.)

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