Gadhwa Donation 3 of the Time of Kumāragupta I, GE 98

Author of digital edition: Dániel Balogh (daba).

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

Repository: SIDDHAM (siddham).

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⟨1⟩ [jitaṁ bhagavatā|] [parama-bhāga](vata-mah)[ā][rājādhi]
⟨2⟩ [rāja-śrī-kumāragupta-rājya-saṁvatsa]re 90 8 [**]
⟨3⟩ [*****] [asyāṁ divasa-]pūrvvāyāṁ paṭṭa(na?)[*]
⟨4⟩ [**********] (ne)nātma-puṇy-opa[ca]-
⟨5⟩ [yārtthaṁ] [*******] (re?) kālīyaṁ sadā-sa[t](tra)-
⟨6⟩ [**********] (ka)sya (ta/bha)lakaniva(rṇṇā) [**]
⟨7⟩ [**********] (bhya)ṁ dīnārāḥ dvādaśa [*]
⟨8⟩ [**********]syāṁkuro(dbhastaccha) [*]
⟨9⟩ [**********] [saṁ]yukta(s s)yād iti|

Bibliography

First reported in Cunningham 1880, p. 9. Edited in Fleet 1888.

Originally encoded for Siddham in the project Beyond Boundaries (Grant Agreement No. 609823) by Dániel Balogh (2019, № IN00021). 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 9.

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 17.

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 1264.

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 18.

Goyal, Śrīrām. 1993. गुप्तकालीन अभिलेख/Guptakālīna Abhilekha (Inscriptions of the Gupta Age). Jodhpur: Kusumanjali Prakashan. Items 140-141.

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Any number of lines may have been lost above this bit, so there may have been a fuller genealogy here.

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Lielukhine has [...para]mabh[#ā]gavata-[#mahā...], so apparently his source (Sircar? check) takes the visible character bottoms to be ma-bha-ga-va-ta rather than as va-ta-ma-ha as Bhandarkar does.

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Bhandarkar prints pūrvvāyaṁ, typo, it's very clearly yā.

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paṭṭa at the end is Fleet's reading; Bhandarkar has paḍūa and remarks that it "may be read also as paṭṭa". This would imply that Bhandarkar takes the half-extant character after ṭṭa/ḍū as a full vowel A, but if so, then Fleet's version would need to be changed to paṭṭaa. Perhaps hazard reading it as na, to give paṭṭana?

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For the end, Bhandarkar prints talakanivānle, while Lielukhine (Sircar?) has talakanivanse. I would hazard nivarṇṇā for the latter part, and maybe bhalaka rather than talaka for the former.

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Bhandarkar has bhyaṁ (without any uncertainty marker) for the first extant character. For the time being I follow him, but Lielukhine has (tya)ṁ which is perhaps a bit more likely

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Bhandarkar only has a question mark after dbha, but the rest also seems pretty open to other possibilities. Perhaps read °odgrasta? or something-ssa[#r]vva?

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Fleet observes that "The measure of the lines of this inscription seems to shew that it did not contain here the full formula of the preceding two" - indeed, if my estimates of the number of missing characters is correct then there's no room for something like yaś cainaṁ vyucchindyāt sa pañcamahāpātakais saṁyuktas syād

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