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

THE GUPTA INSCRIPTIONS; No. 3, PLATE II B. 21
(L. 9.)— . . . . . . . . there was Samudragupta, equal to (the gods) Dhanada and
Antaka in (respectively) pleasure and anger;¹ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . by policy; (and) [by
whom] the whole tribe of kings upon the earth was [overthrown] and reduced to the loss
of the wealth of their sovereignty ;—
(L. 13)—[Who], by . . . . . . . . satisfied by devotion and policy and valour,—by the
glories, consisting of the consecration by besprinkling, &c., that belong to the title of
‘king,’—(and) by . . . . . . . . . combined with supreme satisfaction,— . . . . . . . . . .
(was) a king whose vigour could not be resisted ;—
(L. 17.)—[By whom] there was married a virtuous and faithful wife,² whose dower
was provided by (his) manliness and prowess; who was possessed of an abundance of
[elephants] and horses and money and grain; who delighted in the houses of . . . . ;
(and) who went about in the company of many sons and sons’ sons ;—
(L. 21.)—Whose deeds in battle (are) kindled with prowess; (whose) . . . . . very
mighty fame is always circling round about; and whose enemies are terrified, when they
think, even in the intervals of dreaming, of (his) . . . . . . . . . that are vigorous in
war ;—
(L. 25.)— . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . in a place in Airikiṇa,³ the city of his own
enjoyment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . has been set up, for the sake of augmenting his own
fame
(L. 27.)— . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . when the king said . . . . . . .
(The rest of the inscription is entirely
broken away and lost.)
No. 3; PLATE II B.
UDAYAGIRI CAVE INSCRIPTION OF CHANDRAGUPTA II.
THE YEAR 82.
THIS inscription appears to have been first brought to notice in 1854 by General
Cunningham, in his Bhilsa Topes, p. 150 f., where he published his reading of the text,
and a translation of it, accompanied by a lithograph (id. Plate xxi. No. 200).—In 1858, in
his edition of Prinsep's Essays, Vol. I. p. 246 f. note 4, Mr. Thomas published his own
reading of the text, accompanied by a translation by Professor H. H. Wilson.—And, finally,
in 1880, in the Archaeol. Surv. Ind. Vol. X. p. 50, General Cunningham published his revised
reading of the text, and a revised translation of it, accompanied by a fresh lithograph
(id. Plate xix.)
¹ Compare the customary expression, “equal to (the gods) Dhanada and Varuṇa and Indra and
Antaka,” in line 26 of No. 1 above, page 8. See also page 14 above, note 4.
² Samudragupta's wife was Dattadēvī; but the metre prevents her having been mentioned by
name in this verse.
³ See page 18 above, note 2.
⁴ The lacunæ in this verse render it impossible to say whether here, and below, sva, ‘his own,
refers to Samudragupta, or to some feudatory of his, who may have been mentioned here.