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

36 CORPUS INSCRIPTIONUM INDICARUM, VOL. III.
(L. 4.)—He who, belonging to the Kautsa (gōtra) is well-known under the name of
Śâba, (but is called) Vîrasêna by (his) family-appellation;—who knows the meanings
of words, and logic, and (the ways of) mankind;—who is a poet;—and who belongs to
(the city of) Pâtaliputra,—
(L. 5.)—He came here, accompanied by the king in person, who was seeking to con-
quer the whole world; and, through devotion towards the divine (god) Śambhu, he caused
this cave to be made.

No. 7; PLATE IV B.

GADHWA STONE INSCRIPTION OF CHANDRAGUPTA II.

THE YEAR 88.

THIS inscription, and the following two inscriptions of Kumâragupta, Nos. 8 and 9, are
on a stone that was discovered in 1871-72 by Râjâ Siva Prasad, and were first brought to
notice by General Cunningham in his Archæological Reports.
**Gaḍhwâ,**¹ which means literally 'a fort,' is the name of several villages in the Arail
and Bârâ Parganâs in the Karchhanâ Tahsîl or Sub-Division of the Allahâbâd District in
the North-West Provinces. The particular Gaḍhwâ, where these inscriptions were found,
is in the Bârâ² Parganâ, eight miles to the west by south from Bârâ, and one and a half miles
south of the village of Bhaṭgaḍh.³ It is entered in the map simply as a "Fort."⁴ The
stone containing the inscriptions was found built into the wall of one of the rooms of a
modern dwelling-house inside the enclosure of the fort; and is a rectangular sandstone
fragment, measuring about 9½″ broad by 4″ thick and 2′ 6½″ high. It is now in the Imperial
Museum at Calcutta.
The stone is inscribed on three faces,—on the front, as it stands in the Museum, and
on the two sides. It is entire towards the bottom; but the top of it, containing two or
three lines of writing, has been broken away and lost. In addition to this, the sides now con-
tain only about half of each line of the inscriptions engraved on them; and this, with the
unfinished roughness of the present back of the stone, shews that about half of it has been
pared away, in adapting it to some other purpose than that for which it was originally
intended.

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sense of paramount sovereignty, but coupled also with Mahârâja; e.g. in the Mathurâ inscription of
Huvishka of the year 47 (Archæol. Surv. Ind. Vol. III. p. 33, No. 12, and Plate xiv.), and in the
Mathurâ inscription of Vâsudêva of the year 87 (id. p. 35, No. 18, and Plate xv.). But, by the Early
Gupta period, these two titles appear to have been permanently supplanted, for technical purposes,
by the fuller form of Mahârâjâdhirâja (see page 10 above, note 3). The form Râjâtirâja cannot
be traced at all. And Râjâdhirâja occurs only in metrical passages, where it was inconvenient or
impossible to introduce the prefix mahâ; thus, in addition to the present passage, in line 6 of the
Mandasôr inscription of Yasôdharman and Vishṇuvardhana, No. 35 below; in line 62 of the Alînâ
grant of Śîlâditya VII., No. 39 below; and, in the derivative râjâdhirâjya, in line 24 of the Junâgaḍh
rock inscription of Skandagupta, No. 14 below, in line 2 of which we also have, again for metrical
reasons, another variety of the title, viz. Râjarâjâdhirâja.
¹ The 'Garhwa' and 'Gurhwa' of maps, &c.
² The 'Barah' of maps.
³ The 'Badgarh, Bhatgarh, and Budgudh' of maps, &c.
⁴ Indian Atlas, Sheet No. 88. Lat. 25° 13′ N.; Long. 81° 38′ E.