Nachna Inscription of Vyāghradeva

Alternative title: Nachne-ki-Talai Inscription of Vyāghradeva.

Author of digital edition: Dániel Balogh (daba).

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

Repository: SIDDHAM (siddham).

Identifier: DHARMA_INSSiddham00199.

File path: XML-Provisional/DHARMA_INSSiddham00199.xml.

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

Edition

⟨1⟩ vākāṭakā¿ṇ?ā(ṁ) mahārāja-śr¿i?- ⟨2⟩ pr̥thiv¿i?〰ṣeṇa-pā⟨⟨dā⟩⟩nud(dhy)āto ⟨3⟩ vyāghradevo mātā-pitro⟨ḥ⟩ pu¿n?yārtthe ⟨4⟩ kr̥tam iti

Bibliography

First reported with transcript and facsimile (Plate 27) in Cunningham 1885, pp. 97–98. Edited in Fleet 1888, re-edited in Mirashi 1963. Discussed in Shastri 1997, pp. 5–6 and 55-65. Further references to discussions in Mirashi 1963, p. 89.

Originally encoded for Siddham in the project Beyond Boundaries (Grant Agreement No. 609823) by Dániel Balogh (2019, № IN00199). 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 54.

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 1709.

Mirashi, Vasudev Vishnu. 1963. Inscriptions of the Vākāṭakas. Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum 5. Ootacamund: Archaeological Survey of India. Item 21.

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