Asirgadh Seal Inscription of Śarvavarman

Author of digital edition: Dániel Balogh (daba).

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

Repository: SIDDHAM (siddham).

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⟨1⟩ catus-samudrātikkrānta-kīrttiḥ pratāpānurāgopanatānya-rāj¿ā? varṇṇāśrama-vyavastḥĀ-
⟨2⟩ pana-pravr̥tta-cakkraś cakkradhara Iva prajānām artti-hara⟨ḥ⟩ śr¿i?-mahārāja-harivarmmā tasya
⟨3⟩ puttras tat-pādānuddhy[ā]to jayasvāminī-bhaṭṭārikā-devy[ā]m utpannaḥ śrī-mahārāj-ādityava-
⟨4⟩ rmmā tasya puttras tat-pādānuddhyāto harṣaguptā-bhaṭṭārikā-devyām utpannaḥ śrī-mah[ā]rā-
⟨5⟩ jeśvaravarmmā tasya puttras tat-pādānuddhyāta Upaguptā-bhaṭṭārikā-devyām utpanno
⟨6⟩ mah(ā)rājādhirāja-śr¿i?-īśāna-varmmā tasya puttras tat-pādānuddhyāto (la?)kṣ(m)īva-
⟨7⟩ (t?)ī-bhaṭṭārikā-mahādevyām utpannaḫ parama-māheśvar¿ā? (ma)-
⟨8⟩ hārājādhirāja-śrī-śarvvavarmmā mau(kha)riḥ

Bibliography

First reported in Prinsep 1836, pp. 482–484 with transcript (by W. H. Mill) and drawing (Plate 26) and simultaneously in Wilson 1836, also with transcript (by C. Wilkins) and drawing (before page 377). Summarised in Trivedi & Trivedi 2001, pp. 39–40.

Originally encoded for Siddham in the project Beyond Boundaries (Grant Agreement No. 609823) by Dániel Balogh (2019, № IN00144). 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 47.

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 1602.

Sircar, Dines Chandra. 1983. Select inscriptions bearing on Indian history and civilization. Volume II: from the sixth to the eighteenth century A.D. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass. Book II, item 1.

Thaplyal, Kiran Kumar. 1985. Inscriptions of the Maukharīs, Later Guptas, Puṣpabhūtis and Yaśovarman of Kanauj. New Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research. Item I.B.3.

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As Fleet notes, the vowel mātrās fully or partly missing in the copy may well have been present in the original. However, the Nalanda seal impressions (IN00145 and IN00146) also contain (largely) the same errors.

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The ā of mahā in l6 is shown in Fleet as supplied; I believe there is an ā mātrā both here and on the Asirgadh drawing, but it's a plain horizontal one with a downward hook rather than an ornate erect mātrā.

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The name Lakṣmīvatī in l6-7 was read as Harṣiṇī by Wilkins. As Fleet notes, the most likely reading is Lakṣmīvatī. The name is much clearer in the Nalanda versions.

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