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

32 CORPUS INSCRIPTIONUM INDICARUM, VOL. III.
7 rân [II*] Ta[d-da]tta-........ yâd=arddhêna mahârâjâdhirâja-śrî-
Chandraguptasya Dêvarâja iti pri-
8 ya-nâm........y.tasya¹ sarvva-guṇa-sampattayê yâvach=chandr-âdityau
tâvat=pancha bhikshavô bhuñja-
9 tâm ratna-grihê [cha dî]pakô jvalatu [I*] mama ch=âpar-ârddhât=pañch=
aiva bhikshavô bhuñjatâm ratna-grihê cha
10 dîpaka iti [II*] Tad=êtat-pravṛittaṁ ya uchchhindyât=sa gô-brahma-hatyayâ
saṁyuktô bhavêt=pañchabhiś=ch=âna-
11 ntaryyair=iti [II*] Saṁ² 90 3 Bhâdrapada di³ 4 [II*]
TRANSLATION.
Perfection has been attained! To the community of the faithful⁴ in the holy great
vihâra of Kâkanâdabôta,—in which the organs of sense (of the members of it) have
been subdued by the virtues of (good) character, religious meditation, and wisdom; which
............ deeds of the very highest religious merit; which has come together from the
four quarters of the world; (and) which is the abode of most excellent Śramaṇas,—having
prostrated himself in an assembly of five persons,⁵ Âmrakârdava,⁶ the son of
Undâna,—whose means of subsistence have been made comfortable by the favour of the
feet of the Mahârâjâdhirâja, the glorious Chandragupta (II.); who is publishing in
the world the amiable behaviour of the virtuous people who are the dependents (of the
king); who has acquired banners of victory and fame in many battles; (and) who is an
inhabitant of (the town of) Nashtî...... in the Sukuli dêśa,⁷—gives (the village or
¹ We might very suitably supply the lacunæ by reading Dêvarâja iti priya-nâm=[âmâtyô
bhavat]y=[ê]tasya.
² See page 30 above, note 3.
³ i.e. dina, dinê, divasa, or divasê. And the word properly denotes the solar day, from sunrise
to sunrise, with which a week-day name would be coupled; not the lunar tithi, which may coincide
with, or more or less may differ from, the solar day and week-day.
⁴ Ârya-Saṁgha.
⁵ pañcha-maṇḍalî is evidently the same as the Pañchâît, Pañchâyat, or Pañch, of modern times,
the village-jury of five (or more) persons, convened to settle a dispute by arbitration, to witness and
sanction any art of importance, &c.—Compare pâñchâlî (perhaps a mistake of the engraver for
pañchâlî), which seems to be used in the same sense, in line 16 of Bhagwanlal Indraji's Nêpâl Inscrip-
tions, No. 10 (Ind. Ant. Vol. IX. p. 173).—So also pâñchâlika, in No. 4 of the same series, line 11
(id. p. 168), No. 7, lines 13 and 15 (p. 170), and No. 13, line 20 (p. 177), seems to mean the members
of certain Pañchâyats which are in each instance specified by name.
⁶ Or Âmrakârdava.
⁷ dêśa, 'a region, country, province, &c.,' is a technical territorial term, the exact meaning and
bearing of which have not yet been determined. So, also, khaṇḍa, 'a section;' maṇḍala, 'a circle,
district, arrondissement, province, &c.;' râshṭra, 'a kingdom, district, country, region, &c.;' and
vishaya, 'a country, region, district, province, &c.'—Dêsa is sometimes used as a synonym of
maṇḍala. Thus, in line 7 of a grant of Amma II. of about Śaka-Saṁvat 867 or A.D. 945-46 (Ind.
Ant. Vol. VII. p. 16), and in line 6 of another grant of the same (id. Vol. VIII. p. 74), the kingdom of
the Eastern Chalukyas is called the Vêṅgî dêśa. While, in line 17 of a grant of Amma I. (id. Vol.
VIII. p. 79), and in line 8 of another of Bhîma II. (id. Vol. XIII. p. 213), it is called the Veṅgî maṇ-
ḍala. These charters record grants made in the Pennâtavâḍi, Gudrâvâra, and Pâgunavara vishayas;
which would point to vishaya being a subdivision of a dêśa or maṇḍala. And this is in accordance
with line 5 of the Kapâlêśwar grant of Mahâ-Bhavagupta (id. Vol. V. p. 55, where the correct reading
is vishayîya-Raṇḍâgrâmê), recording a gift of the village of Raṇḍâgrâma belonging to the Pôvâ
or Yôvâ vishaya in the Kôśala dêśa. On the other hand, in line 4 of the Têrdâḷ inscription of Śaka-