Bihar Kotra Cave Inscription of the Time of Naravarman

Author of digital edition: Dániel Balogh (daba).

Language: Sanskrit (san) [Southern Brāhmī (unspecified) (brāhmī_southern_unspecified)].

Repository: SIDDHAM (siddham).

Identifier: DHARMA_INSSiddham00224.

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

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⟨1⟩ śrī¿r?-mmahārāja-si¿ṅ?havarmmaṇas sat-puttrasya śrī¿r?-mmahārā-
⟨2⟩ ja-naravarmma¿syo?likarasya sva-rājya-saṁvatsare catu(r)ṣu var¿ś?a-śa(te)ṣu
⟨3⟩ catu⟨ḥ⟩saptateṣu ph¿a?lgu¿ṇ?a-māsa-bahula-pañcamyāṁ Ācāryya-bhadan(t)a-
⟨4⟩ dāsa-śiṣye¿ṇ?a saṅghile¿ṇ?a cāturddiśam āryya-saṅgham u¿(d)?i⊔śya candrāditya-sthiti-kā-
⟨5⟩ līyaṁ la(ya)naṁ kr̥taṁ⟨.⟩ yad atra puṇyaṁ tat sarvva-sa¿tv?ānām anuttara-jñānāvāptaye ⟨’⟩stu (bha?)vatu

Bibliography

First reported, with synopsis of contents, in IAR 1982-83, p. 121 (No. 15), also mentioned on p. 135. The photograph on p. 163 (plate 8) shows the Narsinghgarh inscription of Aparajitavardhana. Also reported in Ramesh 1985, p. 7. Published with eye copy and Devanagari transcript (both inaccurate) in Tripathi 1997, p. 64. First edited by Dániel Balogh in Siddham, from photographs taken at the site in January 2017.

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Digitally edited by Dániel Balogh. Version of January 2019. Comments below are offered "as is" and do not represent a thoroughly researched or considered opinion.

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The inscription has been enhanced with chalk (or toothpaste), probably by Tripathi. This is generally helpful and accurate but in some places seems to obscure the original.

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L2. varṣa looks like varśa on the rock chalked by Tripathi, as well as in Tripathi's eye copy (his transcript has vaṣaṁ). My detail photo (P1000933) shows that the original was indeed almost certainly ś.

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L4. Tripathi: śiṣyanau saṁghālino cāturdaśa māsyā sādhyāmba viṣya

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L4. The word after saṅgham is uviśya in my photographs of the rock as chalked by Tripathi; T's eye copy also has vi. The originally incised text may have been udiśya (assuming the right-hand leg of the triangle was erroneously chalked); there are neither traces of a subscript second d, nor much room for one, as the vowel mark of jñā in the next line comes close.

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L5. Note that the ma of satvānām anuttara is of the northern type, with an open body and a tail (the vertical stroke next to the tail belongs to the ā of the preceding nā). All other m-s are southern.

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L5. Tripathi: anantara-jñānavāptaye stuvantu.

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L5. no doubling in atra.

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L5. The character I tentatively read as bha in bhavatu is unrecognisable as chalked by Tripathi; in T's eye copy it looks like na.

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