Kamalpur plates of the time of Karṇa year 4

Editor: Amandine Wattelier-Bricout.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSSomavamsin00014.

Language: Sanskrit.

Repository: Somavaṁśin (tfb-somavamsin-epigraphy).

Version: (0598937), last modified (412b985).

Edition

⟨Page 1r⟩

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I. Anuṣṭubh

bhūmi⟨ṁ⟩ ¿j?⟨y⟩aḥ pratigr̥h¿n?⟨ṇ⟩āti

a

ye ca bhūmi⟨ṁ⟩ ⟨22⟩ prayacchat¿e?⟨i⟩

b

Ubh¿o?⟨au⟩ ¿dv?⟨t⟩au pu¿n?⟨ṇ⟩ya-karmmāṇau

c

niyat¿au?⟨aṁ⟩ ⟨23⟩ svarga-gām¿e?⟨i⟩n¿o?⟨au⟩||

d
II. Anuṣṭubh

sva-dat⟨t⟩¿a?⟨ā⟩ṁ para-dat⟨t⟩¿a?⟨ā⟩ṁ vā

a

yo ha⟨24⟩ret¿e?⟨a⟩ vaṁsodharā

b

sa viṣṭ⟨h⟩āyāṁ kr̥mir bhutvā

c

pi⟨Page 3r⟩⟨25⟩tr̥bhiḥ saha pac¿ī?⟨ya⟩te||

d

sajala-sthala-saviṭa⟨26⟩pāraṇya-sagu¿ru?⟨lma⟩l¿ā?⟨a⟩tāsama¿cha?⟨tsya⟩kachapa¿m?⟨s⟩a-gu⟨27⟩lmalatā ca taka dat⟨t⟩ā s¿i?⟨ī⟩||

III. Anuṣṭubh

mama vaṁ¿s?⟨ś⟩a-parī⟨28⟩kṣaṇe

a

y¿e?⟨aḥ⟩ kecit nr̥pabhi⟨r⟩ vet{a}

b

tasyāhāṁ pā⟨29⟩dalagnānāṁ

c

mama kitina lopayet{a}||

d
IV. Anuṣṭubh

⟨bahubhir vasudhā bhuktā⟩

a

⟨rājabhiḥ sagarādibhiḥ⟩

b

yasya ya⟨30⟩sya yadā bhūmiḥ

c

tasya tasya tadā pha{v}lam

d
V. Anuṣṭubh

⟨mad-vaṁśe para-vaṁśe vā⟩

a

⟨yaḥ kaścin nr̥patir bhavet⟩

b

tasy¿a?⟨ā⟩haṃ ⟨31⟩ pādalagnānāṁ

c

mama kr̥ti na l¿ā?⟨o⟩pay¿a?⟨e⟩t{a}

d

Apparatus

Translation by Amandine Wattelier-Bricout

Commentary

Bibliography

The plates are preserved in the Odisha State Museum. The photos are available here.

Primary

[S] Shastri, Ajay Mitra. 1995. Inscriptions of the Śarabhapurīyas, Pāṇḍuvaṁśins and Somavaṁśins, Part II: Inscriptions. New Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Motilal Bandarsidass. Appendix Supplementary Inscriptions, item V, pages 362–365.

Secondary

Tripathy, Snigdha. 2010. Descriptive topographical catalogue of Orissan inscriptions. New Delhi: Manohar Publishers & Distributors. Pages 465–466.

Acharya, Subrata Kumar. 2014. Copper-plate inscriptions of Odisha: a descriptive catalogue (circa fourth century to sixteenth century CE). New Delhi: D. K. Printworld. Page 278.