Mathura Jaina Image Inscription of the time of Kumāragupta I

Author of digital edition: Dániel Balogh (daba).

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

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⟨1⟩ siddhaM| parama-bhaṭṭāraka-m¿ā?hārājādhirāja-śrī-kumāraguptasya v[i]jaya-¿rājya? 100 7 [adhi]ka-[śrāva?]ṇa-māsa-(di)[va](sa) 20 asyā(ṁ pū)[r](vv)[ā]y(ā)[ṁ] k(o)ṭṭ(i)yā gaṇ¿a?-

⟨2⟩ d vidyādharī[t]o śākhāto datilācā[r]yya-prajñāpit(ā)ye śāmāḍhyāye bhaṭṭibhavasya dhītu guhamittra-pāli(ta)-prārt(thā)-rikasy [kuṭumb]iṇīye pratimā pratiṣṭhāpi(tā)

Bibliography

First noticed in Bühler 1894, pp. 211–212.

Originally encoded for Siddham in the project Beyond Boundaries (Grant Agreement No. 609823) by Dániel Balogh (2019, № IN00022). Encoding updated to DHARMA conventions by Dániel Balogh.

Secondary

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 18.

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 1268.

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 21.

Goyal, Śrīrām. 1993. गुप्तकालीन अभिलेख/Guptakālīna Abhilekha (Inscriptions of the Gupta Age). Jodhpur: Kusumanjali Prakashan. Items 145-146.

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Bhandarkar's (di)[#va](sa) 20 is in my opinion way too short. I see nothing of di, but there is space for 3 or 4 characters before sa, and for one after sa before the 20.

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Bühler read the date as 100 10 3; Agrawala seems to concur.

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Bhandarkar is more certain of asyāṁ pūrvvāyāṁ than I am here; I've marked it up the better to indicate the damage, but perhaps revert to a more confident reading, since this too could hardly be anything else.

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the mā in śāmāḍhyāye actually looks like a clear ha, but then so does the mā in kumāragupta above, so probably correct.

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Bühler reads grahamittra; Bhandarkar says it's "doubtless" guhamittra.

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Bhandarkar interprets prārtthārika as "a lapidary", standing for Skt prāstārika. Bühler reads it as prā(tā)rika or possibly prābhārika. I find Bhandarkar's interpretation unconvincing and would add a third option, prācārika, though I'm not sure what that might mean (ask Paul Dundas if it's attested anywhere? perhaps one who follows the pracāra, conduct, for lay believers?)

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