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

38 CORPUS INSCRIPTIONUM INDICARUM, VOL. III.
4 ka-Mātridāsa-pra[mukha] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [puṇy-ā]-
5 pyāyan-ārtthaṁ rachi[ta] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [sa]-
6 dā-sat[t*]ra-sāmānya(nya)-brāhma[ṇa] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
7 dīnārair-ddaśabhiḥ 10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [॥]
8 Yas=ch=ainaṁ dharmma-skanda(ndha¹)ṁ [vyuchchhindyāt=sa
pañcha-mahāpātakaiḥ saṁ]-
9 yyukta[ḥ*] syād-iti ॥(॥)
Second Part.
10 Paramabhāgavatā - mahā[rājādhirāja - śrī - Chandragupta - rāj -
11 jya-saṁvvatsarē² 80 8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [asyāṁ divasa]-
12 pūrvvāyāṁ³ Pāṭā(ta)liput[t]ra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [gṛi]-
13 hasthasya bhāryyā v . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
14 .=ātma-puṇy-ōpachay-[ārtthaṁ] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
15 sadā-sattra-sāmānya-b[rāhmaṇa] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
16 dīnārāḥ daśa 10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [॥] [Yaś=ch=ainaṁ
17 dharmma-skanda(ndha)n vyuchchhindyā[t=sa pañcha
mahāpātakaiḥ saṁyuktaḥ syād-iti [॥]
TRANSLATION.
First Part.
[In the reign of the most devout worshipper of the Divine One, the Mahārājādhirāja
the glorious Chandragupta (II.); in the year] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ;
[on this] (lunar day), (specified) as above by the day (&c.) :—
(Line 3.)— . . . . . . . . . . headed by Mātṛidāsa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . for the purpose of
increasing [the religious merit] . . . . . . . . fashioned . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . the Brāhmans
of the community of a perpetual almshouse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . by ten dīnāras, (or in
figures) 10.
(L. 8.)—And whosoever [shall interfere with] this branch of religion,—[he] shall
become invested [with (the guilt of) the five great sins⁴] !
Second Part.
(L. 10.)—In the reign⁵ of the most devout worshipper of the Divine One, the
Mahārājādhirāja, [the glorious Chandragupta (II.) ]; in the year 80 (and) 8; . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [on this] (lunar day), (specified) as above [by the day, (&c.)] :—

¹ In line 17 below, the reading is again skandam. But this is undoubtedly a mistake for skan-
dhaṁ, which we have distinctly in the same imprecation in line 12 of the Gaḍhwā inscription,
No. 64 below, Plate xxxixB.—We also have a similar expression, puṇya-skandhaṁ, in line 9 of the
Kahāuṁ pillar inscription of Skandagupta, No. 15 below, Plate ixA.
² Read rājyē saṁvatsarē; see note 5 below.
³ Supply tithau.
⁴ The pañcha mahāpātakāni, or 'five great crimes, are—slaying a Brāhmaṇ; drinking intoxi-
cating liquor; theft (of the gold belonging to a Brāhmaṇ); adultery with the wife of a spiritual pre-
ceptor; and associating with any one guilty of these crimes; see the Mānavadharmaśāstra, ix. 235,
and xi. 55 to 59; Burnell's Translation, pp. 287, 331.
⁵ The original, if accepted as it stands, would have to be translated "in the year eighty-eight
of the reign of Chandragupta." But the numerals, both here and in the still more pointed instances
given below, shew that the expression cannot possibly refer to regnal years.—This method of expres-