Sarnath Buddha Image Inscription 1 of the Time of Budhagupta

Author of digital edition: Dániel Balogh (daba).

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

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⟨1⟩ guptā(nā)ṁ samatikkrāntesapta-paṁcāśad-uttareśate samānāṁ pr̥thiv[īṁ]budhagupte praśāsati[|][vaiśākha-māsa-saptamyāṁ][mūle śma-pragate] ⟨2⟩ mayākāritābhayamitreṇapratimā (śāk)ya-bhikṣuṇā||imām u[ddhasta-saccha]tra-pad(mā)sa(na)-[vibhūṣitāṁ][deva-putravato divyāṁ]⟨3⟩ citra-vinyāsa-citritāṁ||yad asti puṇ(ya)ṁ p(ra)timāṁkārayitvā mamāstu ta(T)(mā)tā-(pittror gu)[rūṇāṁ ca][lokasya ca śamāptaye||]

Bibliography

First reported by Hargreaves (with plate of the image, and transliterated text by Y. R. Gupte) in Marshall 1920, pp. 124–125. Also (possibly earlier), by Gupte in the Progress Report of the Archaeological Survey, Northern Circle, 1914-15 (untraced).

Originally encoded for Siddham in the project Beyond Boundaries (Grant Agreement No. 609823) by Dániel Balogh (2019, № IN00041). 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 36A.

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 1283.

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 33.

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 48.

Tsukamoto Keishō 塚本啓祥. 1996. インド仏教碑銘の研究 I, Text, Note, 和訳 Indo Bukkyō himei no kenkyū I: Text, Note, Wayaku [A comprehensive study of the Indian Buddhist inscriptions, Part I: Text, Notes and Japanese Translation]. Kyōto-shi 京都市: Heirakuji Shoten 平楽寺書店. Item IV. Sārnāth 201.

Goyal, Śrīrām. 1993. गुप्तकालीन अभिलेख/Guptakālīna Abhilekha (Inscriptions of the Gupta Age). Jodhpur: Kusumanjali Prakashan. Items 275-276.

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