Piṣpalaṣedhikā grant of Dharasena IV, unknown date (fragmentary)

Editor: Annette Schmiedchen.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSMaitraka00077.

Summary: Grant of the village of Piṣpalaṣedhikā in favour of a Tārā shrine.

Language: Sanskrit.

Repository: Maitraka (tfb-maitraka-epigraphy).

Version: (f455aac), last modified (87af38a).

Edition

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I. Anuṣṭubh

[bahubhir vvasudhā bhuktā rājabhis sagarādibh](i)⟨ḥ⟩ <dashPlain>

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yasya yasya yadā bhūmi(ḥ) tasya tasya tadā phala[M]

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II. Indravajrā

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[8+]ni tāni ko nāma [sādhuḥ] (punar ādadīta)

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Apparatus

Translation by Annette Schmiedchen

Commentary

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.