Udayagiri Cave 6 Inscription of the Time of Candragupta II

Alternative title: Udayagiri Cave Inscription of Chandragupta II, Year 82.

Author of digital edition: Dániel Balogh (daba).

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

Repository: SIDDHAM (siddham).

Identifier: DHARMA_INSSiddham00009.

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

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⟨1⟩ siddhaM|| saṁvatsare 80 2 Āṣāḍha-māsa-śukl¿e?kādaśyāM parama-bhaṭṭāraka-¿mahārājādhi?-śrī-candra(g)upta-pādānuddhyātasya|

⟨2⟩ mahārāja-chagalaga-pautrasya mahārāja-viṣṇudāsa-putrasya sanakānikasya mahā[rāja]-[*](ḍha?)la(syāyaṁ de)(ya?)-(dha)[r]m(ma)ḥ|

Bibliography

First noticed (with text, translation and eye copy) in Cunningham 1854, pp. 150–152. E. Thomas gives his own reading and a translation “approved of by Prof. Wilson” in Prinsep & Thomas 1858, pp. 246–247, n. 4. Revised (with new facsimile) in Cunningham 1880, p. 50. First critical edition in Fleet 1888. Summarised in Trivedi & Trivedi 2001, p. 18 (No. 2). Discussed in: Willis 2009, pp. 57–58.

Originally encoded for Siddham in the project Beyond Boundaries (Grant Agreement No. 609823) by Dániel Balogh (2019, № IN00009). Encoding updated to DHARMA conventions by Dániel Balogh.

Secondary

Fleet, John Faithfull. 1888. Inscriptions of the early Gupta kings and their successors. First edition. Vol. 3. Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum. Calcutta: Superintendent of Government Printing. Item 3.

Bhandarkar, Devadatta Ramakrishna, Bahadur Chand Chhabra & Govind Swamirao Gai. 1981. Inscriptions of the early Gupta kings. Corpus inscriptionum indicarum 3, revised edition. New Delhi: Archaeological survey of India. Item 7.

Bhandarkar, Devadatta Ramakrishna. 1927–1936. A list of the inscriptions of northern India in Brahmi and its derivative scripts, from about 200 A. C.: Appendix to Epigraphia Indica and record of the Archaeological Survey of India, volumes XIX to XXIII. Calcutta: Archaeological Survey of India. [URL]. Item 1260.

Sircar, Dines Chandra. 1965. Select inscriptions bearing on Indian history and civilization. Volume I: from the sixth century B.C. to the sixth century A.D. 2nd edition revised and enlarged. Calcutta: University of Calcutta. Book III, item 10.

Agrawala, Prithvi Kumar. 1983. Imperial Gupta Epigraphs (गुप्ताधिराजलेखमण्डल). Ancient Indian Epigraphical Sources (प्रत्नाभिलेखसंहिता) 10, pt. 1 / 2. Varanasi: Books Asia, Distributed by Prithvi Prakashan. Item 10.

Goyal, Śrīrām. 1993. गुप्तकालीन अभिलेख/Guptakālīna Abhilekha (Inscriptions of the Gupta Age). Jodhpur: Kusumanjali Prakashan. Items 106-108.

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