# Indore Charter Preamble of a Vākāṭaka Ruler

Dániel Balogh

Alternative title: Indore Plates of Pravarasena II

Author of digital edition: Dániel Balogh

Identifier: DHARMA_INSSiddham00165

Repository: SIDDHAM (siddham)

File path: XML-Provisional/DHARMA_INSSiddham00165.xml

Language: Sanskrit [Southern Brāhmī (unspecified)]

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

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## Edition

⟨1⟩ d¿ri?ṣṭa(ṁ)⟨.⟩ tripurī-vāsakā⟨T⟩⟨.⟩
Agniṣṭomāptoryyāmokthya-ṣoḍaśy-atir(ā)tra-vājap(e)ya-br̥haspati- ⟨2⟩
sava-sādyaẖkra-catur-aśvamedha-yājinaḥ viṣṇuvr̥ddha-sagotrasya samrāṬ
vākāṭakānā(ṁ) ⟨3⟩ mahārāja-śrī-◯pravarasenasya sūnoḥ sūnor
atyanta-svāmi-mahā-bhairava-bha⟨4⟩ktasya
Aṁsa-bhāra-sa◯nniveśita-śiva-liṅgodvahana-śiva-suparituṣṭa-samutpādita-
⟨5⟩ rāja-va⟨ṁ⟩śānām
parākramādhigata-bhāgīratthy-¿ā?⟨a⟩mala-jala-mūrddhābhiṣiktānā⟨ṁ⟩
daśāśvamedhā⟨6⟩vabhr̥tha-snātānām bhāraśivānām
ma⊔hārāja-śrī-bhava⊔nāga-dauhi

## Bibliography

First reported (with facsimile) by Shri Ramasevaka Garg in the Hindi
weekly Dharmayuga (untraced, year and further details not known,
reference from Mirashi 1982, p. 65). Reported in English and edited in
Mirashi 1982, pp. 65–72, discussed in Shastri 1987, pp. 52–54, Shastri
1997, pp. 93–95.

Originally encoded for Siddham in the project Beyond Boundaries (Grant
Agreement No. 609823) by Dániel Balogh (2019, № IN00165). Encoding
updated to DHARMA conventions by Dániel Balogh.