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

Editor: Annette Schmiedchen.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSMaitraka00046.

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

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Language: Sanskrit.

Repository: Maitraka (tfb-maitraka-epigraphy).

Version: (f455aac), last modified (fd1ee56).

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

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Translation by Annette Schmiedchen

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Bibliography

Primary

[S2014] Schmiedchen, Annette. 2014. Herrschergenealogie und religiöses Patronat: die Inschriftenkultur der Rāṣṭrakūṭas, Śilāhāras und Yādavas (8. bis 13. Jahrhundert). Gonda Indological Studies 17. Leiden: Brill.