Varanasi Stone Pillar Inscription of the Time of Budhagupta

Author of digital edition: Dániel Balogh (daba).

Contributor: Dániel Balogh (daba).

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

Repository: Siddham (siddham).

Identifier: DHARMA_INSSiddham00043.

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Version: 2026-07-17 15:30 (3e68bda), last modified 2026-07-17 15:30 (3e68bda).

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⟨1⟩ sa(mva) 100 50 9 mārgga di (20) 8 mahārājādhirāja-

⟨2⟩ -budha(gu)¿tpa?-rājye pārvvarika-vāstavya-māra-

⟨3⟩ (viṣa?)-¿duhitā? (sābhāṭi?)-duhi⟨trā⟩ ca dāmasvā-

⟨4⟩ mi(nyā) śilā-stambha⟨ḥ⟩ sthā(p)itaḥ

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Banerji_1945 read the year as 157. I have no opinion. However, I'm very unsure about the day, which looks nothing like 20 8 to me. I think it's more likely to be a single-digit number (probably 4) followed by a daṇḍa. This from the facsimile in Agrawala IGE - the actual inscription may look more like 20 8. The name does indeed look like Budha*tpa; Agrawala thinks it was engraved as tpa and then corrected to pta.

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