Udayagiri Cave 8 Inscription of the Time of Candragupta II

Alternative title: Udayagiri Cave Inscription of Chandragupta II.

Author of digital edition: Dániel Balogh (daba).

Language: Sanskrit (san) [Southern Brāhmī (other) (brāhmī_southern_other)].

Repository: SIDDHAM (siddham).

Identifier: DHARMA_INSSiddham00014.

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Version: 2026-09-11 17:29 (970bed3), last modified 2026-09-11 17:29 (970bed3).

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⟨01⟩ siddham
⟨1⟩ (ya)d a(ṁ)tar-jjyotir arkkābham u(r)vvy(ā)[m] [⏓⏓⏑–⏑⏓] [⏓⏓⏓⏓⏑–] -vyāpi candragu(ptākhya)m adbhutaM 1
⟨2⟩ vikramāvakraya-krītā dāsya-nyagbhūta-(pā)rtthiv(ā) [⏓⏓⏓] m anusaṁraktā dharmma [⏓⏓⏑–⏑⏓] 2
⟨3⟩ tasya rājādhirājarṣer acin[t]yo [⏓⏑] [ka?]rmmaṇaḥ anvaya-prāpta-sācivyo vyā [⏓⏓] [san]dh[i]v[i]grah(e) 3
⟨4⟩ kautsaś śāba Iti khyāto vīrasenaḥ kulākhyayā śabdārttha-nyāya-loka-jñaẖ kaviḫ pāṭaliputrakaḥ 4
⟨5⟩ kr̥tsna-pr̥thvī-jayārtthena rājñaiveha sahāgataḥ bhaktyā bhagavataś śambhor gguhām etām akāraya(T) (5)

Bibliography

First noticed (with transliteration, translation [by Raja Shivprasad Sitar-e-Hind] and manual transcript) in Cunningham 1880, pp. 51–52. Some errors pointed out in Hultzsch 1882, p. 312. Critically edited in Fleet 1888. Slightly revised in Bühler 1891, pp. 226–227. Summarised in Trivedi & Trivedi 2001, pp. 19–20 (No. 4). Discussion: Willis 2009, pp. 39–41, 216.

Originally encoded for Siddham in the project Beyond Boundaries (Grant Agreement No. 609823) by Dániel Balogh. 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 6.

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 11.

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 1541.

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 11.

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 11.

Goyal, Śrīrām. 1993. गुप्तकालीन अभिलेख/Guptakālīna Abhilekha (Inscriptions of the Gupta Age). Jodhpur: Kusumanjali Prakashan. Items 117-123.

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Bhandarkar suggests urvvyām asulabhaṁ nr̥ṣu. Sircar: urvvyāṁ bhāti nirantaram. Willis (2009, with suggestions from Whitney Cox and Hans Bakker): urvvyāṁ tu durlabhaṁ nr̥ṣu.

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Bhandarkar suggests tat sudhī-hr̥daya-vyāpi for the lacuna (Willis accepts). Sircar: divā-vibhāvarī-vyāpi.

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Note Fleet reads mānasaṁraktā; Bhandarkar is says it looks more like m anu and conjectures pr̥thvī yam anusaṁraktā and dharma-san-naya-pālitā for the lacunae. The u mātrā under n is indeed quite conspicuous, unlikely to be a flaw in the rock. Sircar suggests the restoration yasya śāsana-saṁraktā dharmajñasya vasundharā.

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Fleet suggests acintyojjvala or acintyoddhata (but where? not in CII3, that I can see); Bhandarkar votes for acintyodāra.

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Fleet restores the lacuna as vyāpr̥tasandhivigrahaḥ; Bhandarkar says this makes no sense and is unmetrical to boot (as pointed out already by Bühler; the second and the third syllable is not supposed to be simultaneously short). Bhandarkar conjectures vyāsr̥ṣṭas sandhivigrahe

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