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

THE GUPTA INSCRIPTIONS; No. 15, PLATE IX A 65
of the whole earth; whose pious deeds are even more wonderful than his supreme
sovereignty over kings; . . . . . . . . . .
(L. 24.)— . . . . . . . . . . . (Parṇadatta), the protector of the island, and the leader
of great . . . . . . . . of armies for the subjugation of (his) enemies.
(L. 25.)—By his son, who is endowed with his own good qualities, (and) whose life
is devoted to (the worship of) the feet of (the god) Gôvinda, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .;
—by him, who causes the citizens to bow down by his own prowess, having there
attained . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . and the feet, which are like waterlilies, of
(the god) Vishṇu, with a great expenditure of wealth and time [there was built a
temple] of that famous (god Vishṇu) who carries the discus, . . . . . . . . . . . enemies, (and)
who became (incarnate and) human by the exercise of his own free will. (Thus) by
Chakrapâlita, who is of a straightforward mind, there has been caused to be built a
temple of (the god) Chakrabhṛit, in a century of years, together with the thirty-eighth
(year), . . . . . . . . . . . the time of the Guptas.¹
(L. 27.)— . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . uprisen, as it were, of the mountain
Ûrjayat, shines as if displaying (its) lordship on the forehead of the city.
(L. 28.)—And another . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . on the forehead . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
obstructing the path of the birds, is resplendent . . . . . . . . . . . .
No. 15; PLATE IXA.
KAHAUM STONE PILLAR INSCRIPTION OF SKANDAGUPTA.
THE YEAR 141.
THIS inscription appears to have been discovered by Dr. Francis Buchanan (Hamil-
ton),—whose Survey of the Provinces, subject to the Presidency of Bengal, was com-
menced in 1807 and was continued during seven years, and whose manuscript results were
transmitted in 1816 to the Court of Directors of the East India Company,—and to have
been first brought to notice in his reports, from which Mr. Montgomery Martin compiled,
and in 1838 published, the book entitled Eastern India, in which the inscription is noticed
in Vol. II. p. 366 f., with a reduced lithograph (id. Plate v. No. 2).—In the same year, in
the Jour. Beng. As. Soc. Vol. VII. p. 37 f., Mr. James Prinsep published his reading
of the text, and a translation of it,² accompanied by a lithograph (id. Plate i.) reduced
from a copy made by Mr. D. Liston.—In 1860, in the Jour. Amer. Or. Soc. Vol. VI.
p. 530, Dr. FitzEdward Hall published his reading of the first verse of the inscription,
and a translation, which was subsequently revised and reprinted in the Jour. Beng. As.
Soc. Vol. XXX. p 3, note. — In 1871, in the Archæol. Surv. Ind. Vol. I. p. 93 f. and
Plate xxx., General Cunningham published another lithograph, reduced from his own ink-
impression. — And finally, in 1881, in the Ind. Ant. Vol. X. p. 125 f., Dr. Bhagwanlal
Indraji published his revised reading of the text, and a translation of it, accompanied by a
lithograph reduced from an impression made by him when he visited Kahâum in 1873.
¹ See page 57 above, note 4.
² The translation is reprinted in Thomas' edition of Prinsep's Essays, Vol. I. p. 250.