Bijayagadh Pillar Inscription of Viṣṇuvardhana

Author of digital edition: Dániel Balogh (daba).

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

Repository: SIDDHAM (siddham).

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⟨1⟩ siddhaM⟨.⟩ kr̥teṣu caturṣu varṣa-śateṣv aṣṭāvi¿ṅ?śeṣu 400 20 8

⟨2⟩ phālgu¿ṇ?a-bahulasya pañcadaśśyām etasyām pūrvvāyāM⟨.⟩

⟨3⟩ kr̥tau puṇḍarīke yūpo yam pratiṣṭhāpitas suppratiṣṭhita-rājya-nāmadheyena śrī-viṣṇuvarddhanena varikeṇa yaśovarddhana-sat-puttreṇa yaśorāta-sat-pauttreṇa vyāghrarāta-sat-prapauttreṇa

⟨4⟩ śrī-yajña-dharmma-śśreyobbhyudaya-yaśaẖ-kula-va¿ṅ?śa-bhāga-bhogābhivr̥ddhaye⟨.⟩ siddhir astu puṣṭir astu śāntir astu jīvaputtra¿ttv?am astv iṣṭa-kāmāvāptir astu śr¿ā?ddhā-vitte syātām iti

Bibliography

First noticed in Carlyelle 1878, pp. 58–62 with Bühler’s reading and translation, and a lithograph (plate 8). Re-edited in Fleet 1888.

Originally encoded for Siddham in the project Beyond Boundaries (Grant Agreement No. 609823) by Dániel Balogh (2019, № IN00108). Encoding updated to DHARMA conventions by Dániel Balogh.

Secondary

Fleet, John Faithfull. 1888. Inscriptions of the early Gupta kings and their successors. First edition. Vol. 3. Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum. Calcutta: Superintendent of Government Printing. Item 59.

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 2.

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The śrā of śrāddhā may be a correction from an original śrī. There is a circular mark above the character which looks like an ī mātrā, but there are also a couple of random circular traces in empty space, so all may be peculiar blemishes in the stone.

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Varika is obscure and has been explained in several ways. Sircar in EI30 #30 (Charter of Vishnushena) p171ff has several occurrences of a term vārika, which he tries to explain there - this has probably not yet been connected to this varika, but may be.

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