Sarnath Buddha Image Inscription 2 of the Time of Budhagupta

Author of digital edition: Dániel Balogh (daba).

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

Repository: SIDDHAM (siddham).

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⟨1⟩ ⟨Fragment A⟩ (guptānāṁ samati)[krānte](sapta-paṁcāśa)d-uttareśate samānāṁ pr̥thivīṁbudhagu[pte] ⟨Fragment B⟩ praśāsati(||)vaiśākha-māsa-saptamyāṁmūle śma ⟨2⟩ -⟨Fragment A⟩(pragate?) ⟨2⟩ (mayā)(kāritābhayamitreṇa?)(pra)timā (śākya-bhikṣuṇā||)imām [uddhasta-sa] ⟨Fragment B⟩ (ccha)ttra-padmāsana-vibhū(ṣitāṁ)d(eva-pu)ttravato (divyāṁ)⟨3⟩ ⟨Fragment A⟩ [citra-vinyāsa-citritāṁ|][yad asti puṇyaṁ pratimāṁ][kārayitvā mamāstu] ⟨Fragment B⟩ [taT]mātā-pittror g(u)r(ū)ṇāṁ caloka(s)ya ca(śa)māpta(ye)[|]

Bibliography

First reported by Hargreaves (with plate of the image, and transliterated text by Y. R. Gupte) in Marshall 1920, pp. 125–126. 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, № IN00042). 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 36B.

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 47.

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.

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Agrawala reads śyāmagate for śma-pragate. Don't know if he follows Sircar or someone else in this. Bhandarkar puts the line break before pragate, but I don't think he is right. Agrawala breaks the line where I do. There certainly are 3 (or possibly 2) characters after śma at the end of the first line. However, both these as well as those at the beginning of l2 are too unclear in the facsimile to read.

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