Nalanda Intact Seal Inscription of Śarvavarman

Author of digital edition: Dániel Balogh (daba).

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

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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-devyām utpannaḥ śrī-mahārāj-ādityava ⟨4⟩ rmmā tasya puttras tat-p[ā]dānuddhyāto harṣaguptā-bhaṭṭārikā-devyām utpannaḥ śrī-mahārā ⟨5⟩ jeśvaravarmmā tasya puttras tat-pādānuddhyāta Upaguptā-bhaṭṭārikā-devyām utpanno ⟨6⟩ mah(ā)rājādhirāja-śr¿i?-īśāna-varmmā tasya puttras tat-pādānuddhyāto lakṣmīva ⟨7⟩ tī-bhaṭṭārikā-mahādevyām utpannaḥ parama-māheśvaro ma ⟨8⟩ hārājādhirāja-śrī-śarvvavarmmā maukhariḥ

Bibliography

First reported by Hirananda Sastri in ARASI 1927–28, p. 139. Edited in Sastri 1931–1932, pp. 73–74.

Originally encoded for Siddham in the project Beyond Boundaries (Grant Agreement No. 609823) by Dániel Balogh (2019, № IN00145). Encoding updated to DHARMA conventions by Dániel Balogh.

Secondary

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 2081.

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.4.

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