गुप्त अभिलेख संग्रह (जे. एफ. फ्लीट - गुप्त सम्राटों एवं परवर्ती नरेशों के ऐतिहासिक पाषाण व ताम्रलेख)

180 CORPUS INSCRIPTIONUM INDICARUM, VOL. III.
Aṁśuvarman’s sister Bhôgadêvî, who was the wife of the Râjaputra Sûrasêna,¹ and the
mother of the illustrious Bhôgavarman² and Bhâgyadêvî. It records certain orders ad-
dressed by Aṁśuvarman to the officials of the Western Province (paśchim-âdhikaraṇa-
vṛittibhujah, lines 5-6; and paśchim-âdhikaraṇa, line 14), in connection with three liṅga
forms of the god Îśvara or Śiva. The Dûtaka is the Yuvarâja Udayadêva.³ The date
(l. 22) is (Harsha)-Saṁvat 39, Vaiśâkha-śukla-divâ-daśamyâm; answering, approximately,
to the 24th April, A.D. 644.
F.—Dr. Bhagwanlal Indraji’s inscription No. 8; Ind. Ant. Vol. IX. p. 171.—This is not
a formal charter, issued from any specified place. It simply records that, by the favour of
the illustrious Aṁśuvarman (line 2), a praṇâlî or ‘conduit’ was caused to be built by
the Vârtta⁴ Vibhuvarman, for the increase of his father’s religious merit. The date (l. 1)
is (Harsha)-Saṁvat⁵ 44 or 45, Jyêshṭha-śukla . . . . . . . . . . . ., which has its equivalent in
the month of May or June, A.D. 649, or May, A.D. 650.
G.—Dr. Bhagwanlal Indraji’s inscription No: 9; Ind. Ant. Vol. IX. p. 171 f.—The charter
is issued from Kailâsakûṭabhavana (line 3 f.). The inscription is one of the illustrious
Jishṇugupta (l. 4). It records that, at the request of the Sâmanta Chandravarman, a
tilamaka or ‘water-course,’ which had been constructed by the Bhaṭṭâraka and Mahârâjâ-
dhirâja, the glorious Aṁśuvarman (l. 6 f.), was made over by Jishṇugupta to Chandra-
varman, to be repaired; &c. The Dûtaka (l. 21) is the Yuvarâja, the illustrious Vishṇu-
gupta. The date (l. 21) is (Harsha)-Saṁvat 48, Kârttika-śukla-2; answering, approxi-
mately, to the 30th September, A.D. 653.—Lines 1 and 2 of this inscription mention
Mânagṛiha,⁶ and, in connection wich it, the Bhaṭṭâraka and Mahârâja Dhruvadêva;
but the passage is much mutilated, and does not in itself suffice to explain the connection
between Dhruvadêva and Jishṇugupta.⁷
¹ The original is somewhat damaged, but it has undoubtedly s in the first akshara of this name;
not ś as given by Dr. Bhagwanlal Indraji in his text and translation. And the spelling is the same
in line 3 of an inscription of the Sûrasêna family published by him in the Ind. Ant. Vol. X. p. 34 ff.
But very probably ś is the more correct spelling; especially as line 8 of the present inscription men-
tions the liṅga named Śûrabhôgêśvara.
² See page 177 above, note 4.
³ The dates seem to prevent the identification of this person with the Udayadêva of the Ṭhâkurî
family, mentioned in inscription R. below.—He was perhaps a Lichchhavi, as suggested by Dr. Bhag-
wanlal Indraji. If so, in this Lichchhavi Dûtaka of a Ṭhâkurî charter, we have an instance parallel to
the Ṭhâkurî Dûtaka of a Lichchhavi grant, suggested in page 177 above, note 4.
⁴ Dr. Bhagwanlal Indraji took Vârta as a family or tribal name. It seems more likely, however,
tnat, as suggested by himself, it is an official title, synonymous with the vṛittibhuj of inscription E.
above; and that the correct form is vârtta (with the double t) from vṛitti.
⁵ The second symbol is doubtful; but it is either 4 or 5.—I have not seen the original rubbing of
this inscription.
⁶ The two syllables mâna, immediately after svasti, are clear enough in the original rubbing,
though they hardly shew in the lithograph, and were not given by Dr. Bhagwanlal Indraji in his text.
⁷ The purport of it, however, must have been the same as in the next inscription H.