# Mangraon Inscription of the Time of Viṣṇugupta

Dániel Balogh

Alternative title: Mangraon Inscription of Vishnugupta’s Time, Patna
Museum Inscription of Viṣṇugupta

Author of digital edition: Dániel Balogh

Identifier: DHARMA_INSSiddham00212

Repository: SIDDHAM (siddham)

File path: XML-Provisional/DHARMA_INSSiddham00212.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⟩ *
mahārājādhirāja-parameśvara-śrī-viṣṇugupta-deva-pravarddhamāna-vijaya-rājya⟨2⟩-samvatsare
saptadaśe samvaT 10 7 śrāvaṇa śudi 2
cundaskīlā-tapovana⟨3⟩-pratiṣṭhita-śrī-mittra-keśava-deva-prati¿v?addha-puṣpa-paṭṭe
sva-siddhāntābhirata⟨ḥ⟩
Ane⟨4⟩ka-śiva-siddhāyatana-tīrthāvagāhana-pavittrī-kr̥ta-tanuḥ
kuṭukka-deśī⟨5⟩ya⟨ḥ⟩ Avimuktajjaḥ Aṅgāra-grāmake sakala-kuṭum¿v?ināṁ
sakāśād ācandrā⟨6⟩rka-kṣiti-samakālīnaṁ tailasya palam ekam upakrīya
bhagavataḥ ⟨7⟩ śrī-subhadreś(v)ara-devasya pradīpārthaṁ pratipāditavāN||
Evaṁ yo nyathā ⟨8⟩ karoti yad attr(ā)pāyaṁ(ttāvad a)vāpnotīti||

1. Anuṣṭubh

likhitā devadattena
⟨9⟩ saṁkṣiptā kraya-cīrikā|
utkīrṇṇā sūttra-dhāreṇa
kulādityena dhīmatā||

## Bibliography

First reported and edited in Altekar [1952] 1941–1942; simultaneously
reported and edited in Banerjee 1944.

Originally encoded for Siddham in the project Beyond Boundaries (Grant
Agreement No. 609823) by Dániel Balogh (2019, № IN00212). Encoding
updated to DHARMA conventions by Dániel Balogh.

### Secondary

Thaplyal, Kiran Kumar. 1985. Inscriptions of the Maukharīs, Later
Guptas, Puṣpabhūtis and Yaśovarman of Kanauj. New Delhi: Indian Council
of Historical Research. Item II.4.