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

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though his glory is increasing day by day; (and) whom the bards raise to distinction with
(their) songs and praises :—
(L. 15.)—By whose two arms the earth was shaken, when he, the creator (of a disturb-
ance like that) of a terrible whirlpool, joined in close conflict with the Hûnas; ......
among enemies ...... arrows ............ proclaimed ............ just as if it were
the roaring of (the river) Gaṅgâ, making itself noticed in (their) ears.
(L. 17.)— ... the fame of his father ....................................
................................ (Saying to himself that) an image of some kind or other
[should be made], he, the very celebrated one, made this image of that (famous) (god)
Śârṅgin, [to endure as long as the moon and stars may last]. And, having here installed
this (god),¹ he, whose commands are well-established, has allotted this village (to the idol),
in order to increase the religious merit of (his) father.²
(L. 19.)—Accordingly, this image of the Divine One, and (this village) which has
been here agreed to,³—both of these, he, the pious-minded one, has assigned for (the
increase of) the religious merit of (his) father.

No. 14; PLATE VIII.

JUNAGADH ROCK INSCRIPTION OF SKANDAGUPTA.

THE YEARS 136, 137, AND 138.

THE discovery of this inscription appears to have been first announced in 1838, by Mr.
James Prinsep, in the Jour. Beng. As. Soc. Vol. VII. p. 347 f.—In 1844, in the Jour. Bo.
Br. R. As. Soc. Vol. I. p. 148, there was published a lithograph of it, reduced from a
copy, made by General Sir George LeGrand Jacob, Mr. N. L. Westergaard, and a Brâh-
man assistant, which had been submitted to the Society two years previously.—In 1862, in
the same Journal, Vol. VII. p. 121 ff., Dr. Bhau Daji published his reading of the text,
and a translation of it, accompanied by a lithograph reduced from a cloth tracing made in
1861 by Dr. Bhagwanlal Indraji.—And in 1876, Dr. Bhau Daji's text and translation, the
latter revised by Professor Eggeling, were reprinted in the Archæol. Surv. West. Ind. Vol. II.
p. 134 ff., accompanied by a slightly reduced reproduction of the original lithograph from
Dr. Bhagwanlal Indraji's copy (id. Plate xv.)
Junâgaḍh⁴ is the chief town of the Junâgaḍh Native State in the Kâṭhiâwâḍ⁵ Penin-

¹ Or, perhaps, "having here set up this (pillar)."
² It was through reading mahêśa-prîta-gupta, "the Gupta attached to, or beloved of, Śiva,"
instead of ênam sa vidadhê pituḥ, line 18,—and through failing to see that pitari divam=upêtê, "when
(his) father had attained the skies," line 12, refers to the death of Kumâragupta,—that Dr. Mill
came to speak of "a young prince, a minor at the date of this inscription," and to suggest that he was
probably the Mahêndragupta (sic.; but in reality Mahêndrâditya, a title of Kumâragupta), whose name
occurs on some of the coins of the dynasty. This double mistake in Dr. Mill's genealogy was repeat-
ed by Mr. Thomas in his Gupta genealogy (Archæol. Surv. Ind. Vol. II. p. 19). And Mahêndragupta's
name is also given in Mr. Fergusson's last list (Cave-Temples of Western India, p. 191).
³ Or perhaps, "and (this column) which stands here"
⁴ The 'Joonaghur, Junagad, Junagarh, and Junagurh,' of maps, &c. Indian Atlas, Sheet No. 13.
Lat. 21° 31' N.; Long. 70° 36' E.
⁵ The 'Kathiawar and Kattywar' of maps, &c.