Nalanda Seal Legend of Viṣṇugupta

Author of digital edition: Dániel Balogh (daba).

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

Repository: SIDDHAM (siddham).

Identifier: DHARMA_INSSiddham00057.

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Version: 2026-09-16 10:40 (3083d2d), last modified 2026-09-16 09:24 (c200993).

Edition

⟨1⟩ […] hārājādh(i)r(ā)ja-śr[ī]-[p]u […] ⟨2⟩ […] h[ā]r[ā]j[ā]dhirāja-śrī-narasiṁha[guptas] (ta)sya puttras tat-pādānuddh(yā)t(o) ⟨3⟩ […] rājādhirāja-śrī-kumāraguptas tasya puttras tat-pādānuddhyāto ma(hā) ⟨4⟩ […] nnaḫ parama-bhāgavato mahārājādhirāja-śrī-viṣṇug(u)[ptaḥ]

Bibliography

This plate was NOT noticed in Sastri 1931–1932 or Sastri 1942, p. 64. First reported and edited (with plate) in Deva 1941–1942.

Originally encoded for Siddham in the project Beyond Boundaries (Grant Agreement No. 609823) by Dániel Balogh (2019, № IN00057). 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 48.

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 36B.

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 44.

Goyal, Śrīrām. 1993. गुप्तकालीन अभिलेख/Guptakālīna Abhilekha (Inscriptions of the Gupta Age). Jodhpur: Kusumanjali Prakashan. Items 329-331.

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