Nalanda Seal Inscription of a Son of Avantivarman

Alternative title: Nalanda Seal of Su-.

Author of digital edition: Dániel Balogh (daba).

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

Repository: SIDDHAM (siddham).

Identifier: DHARMA_INSSiddham00150.

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

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[ca. 2 lost lines] ⟨1⟩ […] (d)[e]vy[ā]m utpa(n)na […] ⟨2⟩ […] ṭṭār[i]k[ā]-devyām utpannaḥ śrī-mahārāje[śvaravarmmā tasya puttras tat-pādānudhyāta] ⟨3⟩ Upaguptā-bhaṭṭārikā-devyām utpanno mahārājādhi[rāja-śrī-īśānavarmmā tasya puttras ta] ⟨4⟩ t-pādānudhyāto lakṣmīvatī-bhaṭṭārikā-mahādevyā[m utpanno mahārājādhirāja-śrī-] ⟨5⟩ śa(rvvavarmmā) tasya (pu?)(ttra)s tat-pādānudhyāta Indra-bhaṭṭā[rikā-mahādevyām utpanno] ⟨6⟩ (mahārājādhirāja?)-(śrī)-avantivarmmā tasya pu[ttras tat-pādānuddhyātaḥ] [**] ⟨7⟩ (vat)[ī]-(bhaṭ)[ṭā]r[i](k)[ā]-mahādevyām utpannaḥ para[ma-māheśvaro mahā] ⟨8⟩ (rājādhirāja?)-śrī-su(va?) […] [maukhariḥ]

Bibliography

First reported and edited in Ghosh [1942] 1937–1938, № B.

Originally encoded for Siddham in the project Beyond Boundaries (Grant Agreement No. 609823) by Dániel Balogh (2019, № IN00150). Encoding updated to DHARMA conventions by Dániel Balogh.

Secondary

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 2.

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.8.

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Restorations in lines 2 to 6 are based on %IN00144, %IN00145 and %IN00146. I do not restore anything before the middle of l1, where the content must have been the same as in other Maukhari seals, but the line breaks cannot be estimated. The content after the middle of l6 probably follows the model of other Maukhari seals.

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In l1, utpanna is followed by a partial character that is certainly not a visarga. It may be a queerly formed śrī, but doesn't really look like one.

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Ghosh reads the end of l8 as suva, but says (#Ghosh_1937-38:284n6) that suca is also a possibility. He notes that the Mañjuśrīmūlakalpa mentions a king "suvra" (or suvrata) in connection with and after Grahavarman. Ghosh also believes there may be part of an n and a subscript r after this last dubious letter, so his conjectural restoration of the name is Sucandravarman. Sircar (SI2/II.2) goes for Suvratavarman on the basis of the Mañjuśrīmūlakalpa (v613). I find this to be a more likely name. The final character could be a number of other things beside va and ca; sa springs to mind first.

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