Damodarpur Charter of Xgupta

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⟨1⟩ koṭivarṣādhiṣṭhānādhi(karaṇa)sya

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⟨1⟩ sa(mva) 200 20 4 bhādra di 5 parama-daivata-parama-bhaṭṭāraka-ma()rājādhirāja-śrī-[viṣṇu?]-

⟨2⟩ gupte pr̥thivīpatau tat-pāda-parigr̥hīte puṇḍravarddhana-bhuktāv upari(ka-mahārāja)sya

⟨3⟩ rājaputtra-deva-bhaṭṭārakasya hasty-aśva-jana-bhogenānuvahamā(na)ke ko(ṭiva)rṣṣa-viṣa(ye) ca ta-

⟨4⟩ n-¿niyuktakeha? viṣayapati-svayambh(u/ū)deve Adhiṣṭhānādhikaraṇa[m?] āryyya-(na)gara-(śreṣṭhi)-¿(ri)?(bhu)pāla

⟨5⟩ sārttha-vāha-sthāṇudatta-prathama-kulika-matidatta-prathama-kāyastha-skandapāla-puroge (sa)ṁvya(vaha)rati

⟨6⟩ Āyo(dhya)ka-kula-puttrak¿a-A?mr̥tadevena vijñāpitam. iha viṣaye samudaya-bāhyāprahata-khila-(kṣe)ttrā-

⟨7⟩ ṇāṁ tri-dīnārika-kulya-vāpa-vikrayo nuvr̥ttaḥ. tad arhatha matto dīnārān upasaṁgr̥hya man-mātuḥ (pu)ṇyā-

⟨8⟩ bhivr̥ddhaye Atrāraṇye bhagavataḥ śvetavarāha-svāmino deva-kule khaṇḍa-phuṭṭa-prati(saṁ)skā(ra-ka)-

⟨9⟩ raṇāya bali-caru-sa¿tr?a-pravarttana-gavya-dhūpa-puṣpa-prāpaṇa-madhuparkka-dīpādy-upa(yo)(ya) ca

⟨10⟩ Apradā-dharmmeṇa tāmrapaṭṭīkr̥tya kṣetra-stoka¿n? dātum iti yataḥ prathama-pustapāla-nara(na)ndi-

⟨11⟩ -gopadatta-(bhaṭa)nandinām-avadhāraṇayā yuktatayā dha(rmmādhi)kāra-(bu)ddhyā vijṇāpita[] (no) kāry(o)

⟨12⟩ viṣaya-patinā kaścid virodhaḥ keva(laṁ) śrī-parama-bhaṭṭāraka-pādānā[] dharmma-(pha)[la-ṣa]-

⟨13⟩ ḍ-bhā[]vāp(t)i[].

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⟨14⟩ Ity anenāvadhāraṇā-krameṇa Etasmād amr̥tadevāt pañcadaśa dīnārān upasaṁgr̥hya Etan-mātu[]

⟨15⟩ Anugraheṇa svacchandapāṭake (rddha)ṭī-prāveśya-lavaṅgasikāyāñ ca vāstubhis saha kulya-vāpa-dvayaṁ

⟨16⟩ sāṭuvanāśramake pi vāstunā saha kulya-vāpa Ekaḥ paraspatikāyāṁ pañca-kulya-vāpakasyotta(re)ṇa

⟨17⟩ jamvū-na[dyā]ḥ pūrvveṇa kulya-vāpa Ekaḥ pūraṇavr̥ndikaharau pāṭaka-pūrvveṇa kulya-vāpa Ekaḥ. Ity evaṁ khila-kṣettra-

⟨18⟩ sya vāstunā saha pañca kulya-vāpāḥ Apradā-dharmmeṇa bhaga[va]te śvetavarāha-svāmine śaśvat-kāla-bhogyā dattāḥ.

⟨19⟩ tad uttara-kālaṁ saṁvyavahāribhiḥ devabhaktyānumantavyāḥ. Api ca bhūmi-()na-saṁvaddhāḥ ślokā bhavanti

⟨20⟩ sva-dattāṁ para-dattām vā yo hareta vasundharāṁ sa viṣṭhāyāṁ k¿ri?mir ¿bhbh?ūtvā pitr̥bhis saha pacyate vahubhir vvasudhā dattā

⟨21⟩ rājabhis sagarādibhiḥ yasya yasya yadā bhūmis tasya tasya tadā phalaṁ ṣaṣ¿ṭh?iṁ varṣa-sahasrāṇi svargge modati bhūmidaḥ (|)

⟨22⟩ Ākṣeptā cānumantā ca tāny eva narake vased iti

Bibliography

First noticed and edited in Basak 1919–1920, pp. 141–145. Date corrected in Dikshit 1923–1924. Discussed in Basak 1925.

Originally encoded for Siddham in the project Beyond Boundaries (Grant Agreement No. 609823) by Dániel Balogh (2019, № IN00056). Encoding updated to DHARMA conventions by Dániel Balogh.

Secondary

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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 1307.

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 39.

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 62.

Goyal, Śrīrām. 1993. गुप्तकालीन अभिलेख/Guptakālīna Abhilekha (Inscriptions of the Gupta Age). Jodhpur: Kusumanjali Prakashan. Items 324-328.