# Balaghat Charter Fragment of Pravarasena II

Dániel Balogh

Alternative title: Patna Museum Plate of Pravarasena II

Author of digital edition: Dániel Balogh

Identifier: DHARMA_INSSiddham00172

Repository: SIDDHAM (siddham)

File path: XML-Provisional/DHARMA_INSSiddham00172.xml

Language: Sanskrit [Southern Brāhmī (unspecified)]

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

------------------------------------------------------------------------

## Edition

⟨Page 3r⟩ ⟨1⟩ prabhāvat¿i?guptāyā¿s?⟨ṁ⟩ samutpannasya śambho⟨ḥ⟩
prasāda-dhr̥t¿i?⟨a⟩-śūl¿a?⟨ā⟩yu⟨2⟩dhasya vākāṭakānām
mahārāja-śr¿i?⟨ī⟩-pravarasenasya vacanā⟨t⟩ sundhāti- ⟨3⟩ mārgge ◯
brahmapurakasya pūrvvata⟨ḥ⟩ millukadrathasyāparata⟨ḥ⟩ ⟨4⟩
madhukajjharyyā⟨ḥ⟩ cottarara⟨ḥ⟩ darbbhavirakasy¿ā?⟨a⟩ dakṣiṇata⟨ḥ⟩
śrīparṇṇakā- ⟨5⟩ nām{n}a grāmaḥ⟨.⟩ tatra k¿ū?⟨u⟩ṭumbino grāma-vāsinaś ca
vaktavyā⟨ḥ⟩ ⟨Page 3v⟩ ⟨6⟩ yathāsmābhiḥ yaśapur¿e?⟨a⟩-mārgge
māṇāpallikāyāḫ pūrvva-parigra⟨7⟩ha-prativastu mātr̥-bhaṭṭārikā¿n?⟨ṇ⟩āṁ
puṇyopacaye
Aihikāmuṣmi⟨ka-hitārtthaṁ⟩⟨8⟩bhāradvā◯ja-sagotra-vedāryya-putra-gaṅgāryya-kauṇḍi¿ṇ?⟨n⟩ya-sago⟨9⟩tra-vasurāryya{sya}-kauṇḍi¿ṇ?⟨n⟩ya-taitti¿rika?⟨rīya⟩-rudrāryyāṇ¿a?⟨ā⟩ṁ
sa-sīmānta- ⟨10⟩ paricchedena sapañcāśa⟨t⟩ko grāmo dat⟨t⟩aḥ

## Bibliography

First reported and edited (without facsimile) in Altekar 1928.
Discussed, with identification of localities, in Mirashi 1936, pp.
48–50. Re-edited in Mirashi 1963.

Originally encoded for Siddham in the project Beyond Boundaries (Grant
Agreement No. 609823) by Dániel Balogh (2019, № IN00172). Encoding
updated to DHARMA conventions by Dániel Balogh.

### Secondary

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 2095.

Mirashi, Vasudev Vishnu. 1963. Inscriptions of the Vākāṭakas. Corpus
Inscriptionum Indicarum 5. Ootacamund: Archaeological Survey of India.
Item 15.