Bhavnagar plates of Śīlāditya III, [Valabhī] year 348, Pauṣa śuddha 2

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⟨1⟩ svasti vijayaskandhāvārāT m(e)ghavanavāsak¿a?T prasabhapraṇatāmitrāṇāṁ maitrak¿a?ṇām atulabalasaṁpannamaḍalābhogasa()saktaprahāraśatalabdhapratāpāt {pratāpāt}pratāpopana-

⟨2⟩ tadānamānā(r)javopārjjitānurāgād {anurāgād} anuraktamaulabhṛta{}śreṇībalāvāptarājyaśriyaḥ paramamāheśvaraśrībhaṭakkād avyavacchinnarājavaṅśān m¿a?tāpitṛcaraṇāravindapra-

⟨3⟩ ṇatipravidhautāśeṣakalmaṣaḥ śaiśavāt prabhṛti khaḍgadvitīyabāhur eva samadaparagajaghaṭāsphoṭanaprakāśitasatvanikaṣaḥ tatprabhāvapraṇatārāticūḍāra¿kt?aprabh¿a?sa-

⟨4⟩ saktapādana(kha)raśmisaṁhatiḥ sakalasmṛtipraṇītamārggasamyakparipālanaprajāhṛdayarañjanānvarttharājaśabdo r¿u?pak¿a?ntisthairyyyagāmbhīryyabuddhisapadbhiḥ smaraśaśāṅkādrirājodadhitridaśagurudhaneś¿a?n ati-

⟨5⟩ śayānaḥ śaraṇā¿t?atābhay¿ā?pradānaparatayā tṛṇavadapāstāśe¿s?asvakāryyaphala prārtthanādhikārtthapradānānanditavidvatsuhṛtpraṇayihṛdayaḥ pādacārīva sakalabhuvanamaḍalābhogapra-

⟨6⟩ modaḥ paramamāheśvaraḥ śrīguhasenas tasya sutas tatpādanakhamayūkhasant¿a?navis()tajāhnavījalaughaprakṣālitāśeṣakalmaṣaḥ praṇayiśatasahasropajīvyamānasaṁpad rūpalobhād ivāśrita()

⟨7⟩ sa(rabha)sam ābhigāmikair gguṇais ¿v?ahajaśaktiśikṣāviśeṣavism¿a?pitākhiladhanurddharaḥ prathamanarapatisamatisṛṣṭānām anupālayitā dharmmadāyānām apā¿n?arttā prajopagh¿a?tak¿a?riṇām upapla-

⟨8⟩ vānāṁ darśayitā śrīsarasvaty¿e?r ekādhiv¿a?sasya sahatārātipakṣalakṣmīparibhogadakṣavikramo vikramopasaṁprāptavimalapārtthivaśrīḥ paramamāheśvaraḥ śrīdharasenas tasya sutas tatpā-

⟨9⟩ nuddhyātaḥ sakalajagadānandan¿a?tyadbhutaguṇasamudayasthagitasamagradiṅmaḍala() samaraśatavijayaśobhāsan¿a?thamaḍalāgrady¿a?tibh¿o?suratarānsa¿s?īṭho(d)ūḍha(gu)-

⟨10⟩ rumanorathamahābhāraḥ sarvvavidyā(p)arā(p)aravibhāgādhigamavimalamatir api sarvvataḥ subhā¿p?itala¿kha?nāpi sukhopa(p)ādanīyaparitoṣaḥ samagralokāgādhagāmbhī(r)yya(hṛdayo pi)

⟨11⟩ sucarit¿a?{}tiśayasuvyaktaparamakalyāṇasvabhāva khilībhūtakṛtayu(ga)nṛpatipathaviśodhanādhigatodagrakīrtti dharmmānuparodho¿l?valatarīkṛtārtthasukhasaṁpadupa¿śādh?ānirūḍhadha(r)mmā-

⟨12⟩ dityadvitīyanāmā paramamāheśvaraḥ śrīśīlādityas tasyānujas tatpādānuddhyātaḥ svayam upendraguruṇeva guruṇātyādaravatā samabhi¿yep?aṇīyām api rājalakṣmīṁ skandhāsakt¿a? parama-

⟨13⟩ bhadra Iva dhuryyas ta()jñāsapādanai¿n?a¿para?tayaivodvahan{a} kh(e)dasukharatibhyām anāyāsitasatvasa(p)attiḥ pra¿?vasaṁpadvaśī¿s?ṛta¿k?ṛpatiśata¿g?iroratnacchāyopag¿u?ḍha-

⟨14⟩ pādapīṭho ¿bh?i parāva¿sth?ābhimānaras¿a?nāliṅgitamanovṛttiḥ praṇatim ekā parityajya prakhyātapauruṣābhimānair apy arātibhir anāsāditapratikriyopāya kṛtanikhi¿dh?la-

⟨15⟩ bhuvan¿a?modavimalaguṇasaṁhati prasabhavighaṭitasakalakalivilasitagatiḥ nīcajanādhirohibhir aśeṣair ddoṣair anāmṛṣṭātyunnatahṛdayaḥ prakhyātap¿o?ru-

⟨16⟩ ṣāstrakauśalātiśayagaṇatithavi(p)akṣakṣitipatilakṣmīsvayaṁgrāhaprakāśitapravīrapuruṣa{}prathamasaṁkhyādhigamaḥ paramamāheśvaraḥ śrīkharagrahas tasya tanaya-

⟨17⟩ s tatpādānuddhy¿a?taḥ sakalavidyādhigamavihitanikhilavi(dv)ajjanamana(p)aritoṣātiśaya satvasaṁpadā tyā¿bh?au¿l?āryyeṇa ca vigatānusandhānāsamāhitārāti¿y?pakṣa-

⟨18⟩ manorathākṣa¿ru?ṅgaḥ samya¿d?upalakṣitānekaśāstrakalāloka(c)aritagah¿u?ra(v)ibhāgo (p)i parama¿n?a{d}draprakṛtir akṛtrimapraśraya¿dh?inaya¿g?obhāvibhūṣaṇaḥ ¿nu?maraśa-

⟨19⟩ tajayapatākāh¿u?raṇapratya¡l!odagrabāhudaḍavidhvansitani¿y?ilaprati(pa)kṣadar¿sy?odayaḥ svadhanuprabhā(v)aparibhūtāstrakauśalābhimāna sakalanṛpatima()alābhinand¿a?-

⟨20⟩ taśāsanaḥ paramamāheśvaraḥ śrī(dh)arasenas tasyānujas tatpā¿dh?ānuddhyātaḥ sa¿yy?aritātiśayitasakala(p)ūrvvanara(p)atir ati¿n?ussādhānām a¿dh?i prasādhayitā viṣa-

⟨21⟩ ()ṇāṁ mūrttimān iva puru()akāraḥ parivṛddhaguṇānurāganirbbharacittavṛttibhir mmanur iva svayam abhyupapannaḥ prakṛtibhir adhigata¿r?alākalā(p)aẖ (k)āntimān ni¿vya?tihetur akalaṅkaẖ (ku)m¿ū?danā-

⟨22⟩ (tha) (prājya)pratāpasthagitadiga¿k?tarālapradhvaṅsitadhvā¿k?tarāśiḥ satatoditaḥ sa(v)itā pra(k)¿ri?ti¿n?yaḥ paraṁ (p)ratyayam artthavantam atibahutithaprayojanānu(b)andham āgama(p)ari(p)ūrṇṇaṁ vi-

⟨23⟩ dadhānaḥ sandhivigrahasamāsaniścayanipuṇaḥ sthāne nurū(p)am ādeśa¿n?n dadad ¿ś?uṇavṛddhividhānajanitasaṁskāraḥ sā(dh)ūnāṁ rājyasā¿(dh)?ātur¿i?ya{s}ta¿s?trayor u¿ru?yo¿(p)? api

⟨24⟩ niṣṇātaḥ prakṛṣṭavikramo (p)i karuṇāmṛduhṛdayaḥ ¿g?rutavā¿s? a¿dh?y a¿bh?arvvitaẖ (k)ānt¿e? ¿va? praśamī sth(i)rasauhṛda¿p?yo (p)i nirasitā ¿ṣedā?vatām u¿jas?asamayasamu-

⟨25⟩ pajan¿ī?tajanatānurāgapari(p)ihitabhuvanasamartthitaprathitabālādityadvitīyanāmā paramamāheśvaraḥ śrīdhr(u)vasenas tasya sutas tatpādakamala-

⟨26⟩ praṇāmadharaṇikaṣaṇajanitakiṇalāñchanalalāṭa¿y?andraśakalaḥ śiśubhāva ¿gu?va śravaṇanihitamaukti¿n?ālaṅkāravi(bh)ramāmalaśrutaviśeṣa pradāna(sa)-

⟨27⟩ lilakṣālitāgrahastāravindaẖ (k)anyāyā Iva mṛdu¿n?aragrahaṇād amandīkṛtānandavidhir vvasu(n)dharāyāẖ kārmmuke dhanurv¿y?eda (I)va saṁbhāvitāśeṣalakṣya-

⟨28⟩ kalā(p)a (p)raṇatasāma¿k?tamaḍalottamāṅgadhṛtacūḍāratn¿a?yam¿a?naśāsanaḥ paramamāheśvaraḥ paramabhaṭṭārakamahā{ru}rājādhirājaparameśvaracakra-

⟨29⟩ varttiśrīdharasenas tatpitāmahabhrātṛśrīśīlādityasya śār()gapāṇer ivāṅgajanmano bhaktibandhur¿a?vayava¿n?alpitapraṇa¿()a?r atidhavalayā

⟨30⟩ ¿?raṁ tatpādāravindaprav()ttayā na(kha)maṇi¿bha?¿vi?ndā¿m?inye¿dh?a nityam amalitottamāṅgadeśas(y)āgastyasy(ai)va rājar¿s?er ddākṣiṇya¿r? ātan¿ya?na¿p?sya

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⟨31⟩ pra¿vi?ladhavalimnā yaśasā valayena maḍitakakubhā nabhasi yāmi(n)īpater ¿d?viḍambitākhaḍapariveṣamaḍalasya payo(da)[śyāmaśikha]racūcukarucirasahyavindhyastanayu[gāyāḥ]

⟨32⟩ kṣiteḫ patyuḥ śrīḍerabhaṭasyāṅgaja kṣitipasa()hat(e)r anurāgiṇyāḥ ¿g?uc¿a?yaśoṅśukabhṛtaḥ svayavaramālām iva rājyaśriyam a(rppa)[ya]n(tyā) k()taparigrahaḥ śauryyam a(p)pratihatavyāp¿a?-

⟨33⟩ ram āna(m)itapracaḍaripu¿(ṇḍama)?la maḍalāg(r)am ivāvalambamānaḥ śaradi prasabham ākṛṣṭaśilīmukhabāṇāsan¿a?pāditaprasādhan¿a?n¿a?ṁ parabhu¿p?āṁ vidhivad ācaritakara¿t?rahaṇaḥ p¿a?(rvva)-

⟨34⟩ ¿s? e¿d?a v¿o?vidhavarṇṇojjva(le)na śrut¿a?[ti]śayen¿e?dbh(ā)s(ita)śravaṇaḥ punaḫ punar ukteneva ratnālaṅkā¿ga?ṇālaṅkṛtaśrotra parisphura(tk)aṭaka¿y?ika[ṭa]kīṭa¿yasva?rat¿t?akiraṇam avicchinnapradānasalilaniva¿r?āva-

⟨35⟩ sekavila¿t?annava¿g?aivalāṅkuram ivāgrapāṇim u(d)vahaN dh()tavi¿g?ālaratnavalayajaladhivelāta(ṭā)yamānabhujapariṣvaktaviśva¿()ru?raḥ paramamāheśvaraḥ śrīdhruvasenas tasyāgraja

⟨36⟩ p¿ā?ramahīp¿g?atisparśadoṣa()śanadhi(ye)va lakṣmyā svayam atispaṣṭaceṣṭam āśliṣṭāṅgayaṣṭir atirucirataracaritagari¿ta?pari¿s?al(i)tasa(k)alanara(p)atir atipra(kṛ)ṣṭānurāgarasarabhasavaśīkṛta-

⟨37⟩ praṇatasamastasāmantacakracūḍāmaṇimayūkhakhacitacaraṇakamalayugalaḥ proddāmodāradorddaḍadalitadviṣa¿v?vargadarppaḥ prasa¿vy?atpaṭīya() pratāpaploṣitāśeṣaśa¿pra?-

⟨38⟩ vaṅśaḥ praṇayipakṣanikṣiptalakṣmīkaḥ prerita¿ś?adotkṣi(p)tasudarśanacakra pari¿kri?tabālakrīḍo nadhaẖk()tadvi¿sa?ti[r] ¿i?kavi(kra)ma(pra)sādhitadharitrītalo na(ṅg)īkṛtajalaśayyo (p)ūrvva(pu)ruṣo

⟨39⟩ ttamaḥ sākṣād dharmma Iva samyag¿kh?yavasthāpitavarṇṇāśramācāraḥ p¿u?r(vv)air apy ¿u?rvvīpatibhis tṛṣṇālavalubdhair yyāny apahṛtāni devabrahmadeyāni teṣām apy atisarala(m)a-

⟨40⟩ naḫprasaram utsa¿ṭṭaso?nānumodanābhyā (pa)rimu(di)tatribhuvan¿an?inanditocchritotk¿a?ṣṭadhavaladharmmadhvajaprakāśitanijavaṅśo devadvi(j)agurūn prati yathārham ana-

⟨41⟩ varatapravarttitamahoddraṅgādidānavyasa¿m?ānu(p)ajātasantoṣopāttodāra(k)īrttipaṁktiparaparā¿r?anturitani¿y?iladi¿n?cakravālaḥ spaṣṭam eva yathārtha dharmm¿i?dityāparan(ā)-

⟨42⟩ mā paramamāheśvaraḥ śrīkharagrahas tasyāgrajanmanaẖ k¿a?mudaṣaḍaśrīvi¿t?āsinyā kalāvataś candrikayeva k{}¿i?rtyā dhavalitasakaladiṅmaḍa¿di?sya khaḍitāguruvilepa-

⟨43⟩ na(p)iḍaśyāmalavindhyaśailavi(p)ulapayodharā¿n?ogāyāḥ kṣoṇyāḫ patyuḥ śrīśīlādityasya sūnur nnavaprāl¿i?yakiraṇa Iva pratidinasavarddham¿a?na¿n?alācakra¿t?āla()

⟨44⟩ kesarīndraśiśur iva rājala(kṣmī)m acalavanasthalīm ivālaṅk(u)rvvāṇaḥ śikhaḍiketana Iva rucimac¿dh?āmaḍanaḥ ¿ś?pracaḍaśaktiprabh¿a?vaś ca śara¿l?āgama Iva pratāpavān ulla(s)at-

⟨45⟩ pa(d)ma sa(y)uge vidalayann ambh(o)dhar¿a?n iva paragajān udaya Eva tapana¿matra?tapa Iva sagrāme mu(ṣṇ)ann a¿n?im¿a?khānām ā¿cūkṣa? ¿v?dviṣatāṁ paramāheśvaraḥ śrīśīlādityaẖ kuśalī

⟨46⟩ sarvvān eva samāj(ñā)payaty astu vas saviditaṁ yathā mayā mātā(p)itroḫ puṇyāpyāyanāya kaśahradavinirggatataccāturvv(i)dyasāmānya(bh)aradvājasagotrachandogasabrahmacār(i)brāhmaṇadattullakaputrabrāhma-

⟨47⟩ ṇasoma tathā girinagaravinirggatasiṅghapura()stavyataccāturvvidyasāmānyavatsasagotravājasaneyisabrahma(c)āribrāhmaṇabhaṭṭihariputrabrāhmaṇapiṅgaleśvaras t¿e?thā ta(t)putranāga ity etebhyaḥ

⟨48⟩ tribhyo brāhmaṇebhyaḥ surāṣṭreṣu hastavaprāhāre ḍa(cc)āṇakagrām(e) trikhaḍāvasthitaṁ pañcāśadbhūpādāvarttaparim¿a?ṇakṣetrakhaḍaṁ k(u)ṭumbiguggakaprakṛṣṭaṁ yatra prathamakhaḍa Aparasīm¿k?i viṅśatibhū-

⟨49⟩ dāvarttaparimāṇa yasyāghāṭanāni pūrvvataḥ kuṭumbisamudraprakṛṣṭakṣetraṁ dakṣiṇataḥ ḍamaraprakṛṣṭakṣetraṁ Aparataḥ maheśvaraprakṛṣṭakṣetraṁ Uttarataḥ sirīṣavāpīpraccīhā ta¿(ttādi)?

⟨50⟩ A(parasī)mny eva dvitīyakhaṁḍaṁ viṅśatibhūpādāvarttaparimāṇaṁ yasya pūrvvataḥ nadī dakṣiṇataḥ saiva nadī Aparataḥ bhaṭikāgrāmasīmā Uttarataḥ nadī tathā t¿ri?tīyakhaṁḍaṁ Uttarasī(mni)

⟨51⟩ daśabhūpādāvarttaparimāṇaṁ yasya pūrvvataḥ Ādityadattaprakṛṣṭakṣetraṁ dakṣiṇataḥ saggamadinnaprakṛṣṭakṣetraṁ Aparataḥ dāsakaprakṛṣṭakṣetraṁ Ut(t)arataḥ dāsaka-

⟨52⟩ prakṛṣṭakṣetraṁ tathā Aparasīmni k(u)ṭumbiguggakamaheśvararogghasī(hai) pr¿ā?kṛṣṭasirīṣavāpīti saṁjñitā pañcāviṅśatibhūpādāvarttapari(sa)rā vāpī yasyāḥ pūrvva{t}taḥ

⟨53⟩ samudraprakṛṣṭakṣetraṁ dakṣiṇataḥ guggakaprakṛṣṭakṣetraṁ Aparataḥ maheśvaraprakṛṣṭakṣetraṁ Uttarataḥ saggamadinnaprakṛṣṭakṣetraṁ tathā maka[*]dv(au)kevātandhamakagr(ā)me

⟨54⟩ Aparasīmni ku(ṭu)mbimātṛdāsaprakṛṣṭa(v)aḍasaṃjñita paṁcāśadbhūpādāvarttaparimāṇaṁ kṣetrakhaṁḍaṁ yasya pūrvvataḥ (b)rāhmaṇadattullaka(s)atkakṣetraṁ da(kṣi)ṇataḥ

⟨55⟩ taṭākaṁ Aparataḥ dattullakasatkabrahmadeyakṣetraṁ Uttarataḥ rājavaṭṭa() Evam (i)dam āghāṭanaviśuddhaṁ vāpīsamanvitakṣetrakhaḍa(dvayaṁ sodraṅgaṁ) soparikaraṁ sabhūta-

⟨56⟩ vātapratyāyaṁ sadhānyahiraṇyādeyaṁ sadaśāparādhaṁ sotpadyamānaviṣṭikaṁ sarvvarājakīyānām ahastaprakṣeyaṇī¿p?a() pūr(vvada)ttade(va)brahmadeyarahitaṁ bhūmi-

⟨57⟩ cchidrany(ā)yenācandrārkkārṇṇavakṣit(i)saritparvvatasamakālīnaṁ putrapautrānvayabhogyam udak¿a?tisarggeṇa dharmmadāyo nisṛṣṭaḥ yato (teṣā)m ucitayā brahmadeyasthity¿a? bhu-

⟨58⟩ ñjatāṁ kṛṣatāṁ karṣayatāṁ pratidiśatāṁ vā na kaiścid vyāsedhe varttitavyam āgāmibhadra(n)ṛpatibhir apy asma(dv)aṅśajair anyai(r) vvā Anityāny aiśva(r)yyāṇy asthira() mānuṣya sām¿a?nyañ ca bhūmid¿a?-

⟨59⟩ naphalam a(vagaccha)dbhir ayam asmad¿y?āyo numa(nta)vya paripālayitavyaś cety uktañ ca bahubhi¿(s)? vvasudhā bhuktā rājabhiḥ sagarādibhiḥ yasya yasya yadā bhūmis tasya tasya tadā phala(M)

⟨60⟩ yānīha dāri(dryabhayā)n narendrair ddhanāni dharmmāyatanīkṛtāni nirbbhuktamālya(p)ratimāni tāni ko nāma sā¿g?uḫ punar ādadīta ṣaṣṭi varṣasaha-

⟨61⟩ [srāṇ]i s¿y?argge t(i)[ṣṭhati] bhūmidaḥ Ācchettā cānumantā ca tāny eva narake vase(T){k}tako (tra) rājaputradhruvasenaḥ

⟨62⟩ [likhi]tam idaṁ sandhi(vi)grahādhikṛtadivirapatiśrīskandabhaṭaputradivirapatiśrīmadanahi(l)eneti saṁ 300 40 pauṣa pauṣa śuddha 2 svahasto mama

Bibliography

Lines 1 to 26 of the first plate first edited in a rather faulty way by P. Anderson with an eye-copy and a translation (Anderson 1847–1851). Grant portion of the second plate first edited by G. V. Acharya; neither estampage nor translation (Acharya 1925, № 6). Fully edited by Annette Schmiedchen on the basis of photographs of the original.

Primary

[PA] Anderson, P. 1847–1851. “Some account together with a fac-simile Devanāgarī transcript and translation of a copper-plate inscription in the Society’s Museum.” JBBRAS 3 (2), pp. 213–223.

[GVA] Acharya, Girjashankar Vallabhaji. 1925. “Notes on some unpublished Valabhī copper plates belonging to the Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society and lent to the Prince of Wales Museum of Western India.” JBBRAS 1, pp. 65–75. [URL]. Item 6.