# Shahpur Image Inscription of Ādityasena

Dániel Balogh

Alternative title: Shahpur Stone Image Inscription of Ādityasena

Author of digital edition: Dániel Balogh

Identifier: DHARMA_INSSiddham00208

Repository: SIDDHAM (siddham)

File path: XML-Provisional/DHARMA_INSSiddham00208.xml

Language: Sanskrit [Southern Brāhmī (unspecified)]

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

⟨1⟩ (khalaḍhagagu) candra-kṣiti-kālaṁ yāvat pratipāditaṁ

⟨2⟩ *samvaT (60 6) mārgga su di (7)⟨.⟩ Asmin
divasa-māsa-samvatsarānupūrvvyāṁ śrī-(ā)dityasena⟨3⟩-(deva)-rāj(y)e
(nā?)la(nda?)-mah-āgr(ā)hār(e) sā(dhu)(nā?) valādhikr̥ta-sālapakṣeṇa
de⟨ya⟩-dharmmo yaṁ prati(ṣṭh)ita¿ṁ?⟨ḥ⟩ ⟨4⟩ mātā-pitro(R Ā)tmanaś ca
puṇyābhivr̥ddhaye

## Bibliography

First reported (with transcript and pencil rubbing, Plate 11) in
Cunningham 1882, pp. 11–12. Also reported in Cunningham & Garrick 1883,
p. 79.

Originally encoded for Siddham in the project Beyond Boundaries (Grant
Agreement No. 609823) by Dániel Balogh (2019, № IN00208). 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 43.

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 1393.

Thaplyal, Kiran Kumar. 1985. Inscriptions of the Maukharīs, Later
Guptas, Puṣpabhūtis and Yaśovarman of Kanauj. New Delhi: Indian Council
of Historical Research. Item II.1.