Valabhipur plate [of Śīlāditya I], [Valabhī] year 286, Śrāvaṇa ba. 7 (only plate 2)

Author of digital edition: Annette Schmiedchen (ansc).

Contributor: Annette Schmiedchen (ansc).

Summary: Grant in favour of a Buddhist monastery; details of the donative object lost due to damage.

Language: Sanskrit (san) [Script (other) (script_other)].

Repository: Maitraka (tfb-maitraka-epigraphy).

Identifier: DHARMA_INSMaitraka00046.

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⟨1⟩ (yu)ktakadrāṅgikama(hattaracāṭabhaṭaku)mārāmātyādīn any¿a?ṁś ca yathābhisambaddhyamāna[******]-
⟨2⟩ ty astu vas saṁviditaṁ yathā mayā m¿a?tāpitroḫ puṇy¿a?pyāyanāya vaṁśakaṭa(prati)[****]-
⟨3⟩ ritavihāranivāsicaturddigabhyāgatāryyabhikṣusaṁghasya cīvarapiṇḍap(ā)[******]-
⟨4⟩ (glā)napratyaya(bhai)ṣajyapariṣkārārtthaṁ buddhānāñ ca bhagavatāṁ gandhadhūpapuṣpamāl(y)ad¿ī?patailā(dyupayo)[****]-
⟨5⟩ rasya khaṇḍasphu(ṭi)tapratisaṁskārāya kalpikārapādamūlaprajīvanāya ca k(ā)[**]kapatha(k)e [*****]
⟨6⟩ (so)draṅga(s so)parikaras sav(ā)tabhūtapratyāyas sadhānyahiraṇyādeyas sadaśāparādhas sotpadya[******]-
⟨7⟩ [*]kīyānām ahastaprakṣepaṇīyaḥ pūrvvaprattadevabrahmadeyavarjjitaḥ bhūmicchidranyāye[**]ndrā[****]-
⟨8⟩ [*]sarit(p)arvvatasamakālīnaḥ Avyavacchittibhogya⟨ḥ⟩ dharmmadāyatayā nisṛṣṭaḥ yata Ucitayā (d)ev(ā)[***]-
⟨9⟩ [*]tyā bhujyamanakaḥ na kaiścit paripanthanīyaḥ āgāmibhadranṛpatibhir apy asmadvaṁśajair anyair vvā a[***]-
⟨10⟩ [*]r(yy)āṇy asthiraṁ m¿a?nuṣyaṁ sām¿a?nyañ ca bhūmidānaphalam avagacchadbhir ayam asmaddāyo numanta(vyaḥ) [****]-
⟨11⟩ [****]ti ∥ bahubhir vvasudhā bhuktā rājabhis sagarādibhiḥ yasya yasya yadā bhūmis tasya (ta)[*****]-
⟨12⟩ [*]nīha dāridryabhayān narendrair ddhanāni dharmmāyatanīkṛtāni nirbbhuktamālyapratimā[****]-
⟨13⟩ [****]ḫ punarādadīta ∥ ¿p?a¿p?ṭiṃ varṣasahasrāṇi svargge mo¿deta? bhūmidaḥ Ā[******]-
⟨14⟩ [****](narakeva)seT ∥ dūtakaś cātra bhaṭṭādityayaśāḥ ∥ likhitaṁ sandhi[********]-
⟨15⟩ [*********]saṁ 200 80 6 śrāvaṇa ba 7 ∥ ꩜ ∥ sva[****]

Bibliography

Preserved fragmentary second plate first edited by D. B. Diskalkar; neither estampage nor translation (Diskalkar 1925, № 6). Re-edited by Annette Schmiedchen on the basis of a fibre-glass replica.

Primary

[DBD] Diskalkar, D. B. 1925. “Some unpublished copper-plates of the rulers of Valabhī.” JBBRAS 1, pp. 16–63. Item 6.

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