Nandsa Yūpa Vertical Inscription

Alternative title: Nandsa Yūpa Inscription A.

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⟨.⟩ kr̥tayor dvayor vvarṣa-śatayor dvyaśītayoḥ 200 80 2 caittra-pūrṇṇamā¿sīṁ?m asyām pūrvvāyāṁ mahatā sva-śakti-guṇa-guruṇā pauruṣeṇa prathama-candra-darśa(nam iva mā)[lava-gaṇa-viṣayam avatāra] ⟨2⟩ yitvaikaṣaṣṭi-rāttram atisattram aparimita-dharmma-māttraṁ samuddhr̥ttya pitr̥-paitāmah¿i?¿n? dhuram āvr̥ttya suvipulaṁ dyāvāpr̥thivyor antaram anuttamena (yaśasā) [sva-karmma-saṁpadayā vipulāṁ samu] ⟨3⟩ pagatām r̥ddhim ātma-siddhiṁ vitatya māyām iva sattra-bhūmau sarvva-kāmaugha-dhārāṁ vasor ddhārām iva bbrāhmaṇāg(n)i-vaiśvānareṣu hutvā brahmendra-prajāpati-maharṣi-viṣ(ṇu)-[sthāneṣu kr̥tāvakāśasya pāpa-ni] ⟨4⟩ ravakāśasya sitasabhāvasatha-taḍāka-kūpa-devāyatana-yajña-dāna-sattya-prajā-vipula-pālana-prasaṅg(ai)ḫ purāṇa{ṁ}-rājarṣi-dharmma-paddhat¿ī?-satata-kr̥ta-samanugamana-niśca[yasya sva-guṇātiśaya-vistarair manu] ⟨5⟩ -nirvviś¿o?ṣam iva bhuvi manuṣya-bhāvaṁ yathārttham anubhavata Ikṣvāku-prathita-rājarṣi-vaṁśe mālava-vaṁśe prasūtasya jaya(tsena-naptur bhr̥gu?)varddhana-pauttrasya jayasoma-puttrasya sogi(no?)[naṁdisomasyāneka-śata-go-sahasra] ⟨6⟩ -dakṣiṇā⟨.⟩ vr̥ṣa-pramatta-śr̥ṅga-vipradhr̥ṣṭa-cittya-vr̥kṣa-yūpa-saṁkaṭa-tīr¿o? puṣkara-ppratilam[bh]a-bhūte sva-dharma-setau mahā[taḍāke yūpa-pra][tiṣṭhā kr̥tā|?]

Bibliography

First reported in Halder 1929. Edited in Altekar [1956] 1947–1948. Discussed in Venkataramayya 1953.

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Edition based on #Altekar_1947 with corrections from #Venkataramayya_1953. Restored text is based on %IN00217, except for bha of pratilambha and tiṣṭhā kr̥tā at the end, which is Altekar's conjecture.

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L1. siddham is a little below the level of line 1. The halanta M is subscript, with a line above (which Altekar apparently takes for punctuation).

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L1. pūrṇṇa looks like tūrṇṇa in Halder's facsimile. My scan of the EI facsimile is useless.

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L3. There is an unnecessary stroke engraved to the left of the vertical of kā in kāmaugha, below the left side of the cross-stroke of k. (Altekar)

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L3. There is a concave semicircle above the anusvāra of dhārāṁ. (Altekar) This feature is discussed in #Altekar_1947:254.

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L3. There is an unnecessary dot before the s in vaso. (Altekar)

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L3. bbrā looks like pbrā (Altekar).

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L4. There is an unnecessary dot over bhā in sabhā.

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L4. kū in kūpa also has an o mātrā "through carelessness" (Altekar).

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L4. Altekar prints prasaṅgaf. I tentatively correct to prasaṅgaif, because the secondary inscription reads prasaṁgaiḥ and Altekar does not remark on this difference, so I assume a typo in his edition of the primary inscription. My scanned facsimile cannot help decide.

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L4. The unnecessary anusvāra of purāṇaṁ also has a semicircle above it (Altekar).

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L5. There is a concave semicircle above the anusvāra of both instances of vaṁśe. (Altekar)

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L5. I follow Venkataramayya's reading of the names. My scan is useless. Altekar reads jayanartana; followed by purbhāgravarddhana, em. prabhāgravarddhana; at the end he reads sogine, restoring soginetuḥ śrīsomasyā°. I wonder though, and should check if I ever get a chance: if Venkata is right that there are two characters before soma, can't it be bhaṭṭisoma like in the fragmentary inscription?

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L6. I retain Altekar's supplied daṇḍa after dakṣiṇā, but it seems unnecessary in light of the very plausible restoration of the end.

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L6. Altekar translates cityavr̥kṣa as "holy trees", probably taking it as equivalent to caityavr̥kṣa. I'm not sure. His translation is unconvincing in many places.

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