Nalanda Seal Legend 1 of Kumāragupta II

Alternative title: Nalanda Seal of Kumāragupta III.

Author of digital edition: Dániel Balogh (daba).

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

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⟨1⟩ sa(r)vva-r(ā)jocch(e)ttuḫ pr̥thivyām apratirathasya mahārāja-śrī-gupta-prapauttrasya ma(h)ār(ā)ja-śrī-gha(ṭ)otka(ca-p)au(ttrasya mahā) ⟨2⟩ rājādhirāja-ś(r)ī-candragupta-puttrasya licchavi-dauhittrasya mahādevyāṁ kumāradevyām utpannasya mahārājādhirāja ⟨3⟩ -(śrī-sa)mudraguptsya puttras tat-parigr̥hīto mahādevyā¿n? dattadevyām utpannas s(va)yaṁ cāpratirathaḫ parama(bh)āga ⟨4⟩ (vato ma)hārājādhir(ā)ja-śrī-candrag(u)ptas tasya puttras (ta)t-p(ā)d(ā)nudh(y)āto mahādevyāṁ dhruvadevyām utpanno mah(ā)rā ⟨5⟩ jādhirāja-śrī-kumāraguptas ta(s)ya puttras tat-pādānuddhyāto mahādevyām anantadevyām utpanno mahā ⟨6⟩ r(ā)jādhirāja-śrī-puruguptas tasya puttras tat-pādānuddhyāt(o) mahādevyāṁ śrī-candradevyām utpann(o) mahā ⟨7⟩ rājādhirāja-śrī-narasiṁhagup(ta)s tasya puttras tat-pādānuddhyāto mahādevyāṁ śrī-(m)ittrade ⟨8⟩ (vyā)m u(tpanna)ḫ parama-bhāgavato mahārājādhirāja-śrī-kumāraguptaḥ

Bibliography

Briefly noticed in Sastri 1931–1932, p. 77 (postscript). Described and edited in Sastri 1942, pp. 65–67. A detail corrected by N. P. Chakravarti in ARASI 1934–35, p. 63.

Originally encoded for Siddham in the project Beyond Boundaries (Grant Agreement No. 609823) by Dániel Balogh (2019, № IN00053). 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 45.

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 42.

Goyal, Śrīrām. 1993. गुप्तकालीन अभिलेख/Guptakālīna Abhilekha (Inscriptions of the Gupta Age). Jodhpur: Kusumanjali Prakashan. Items 271-273.

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