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

THE GUPTA INSCRIPTIONS; No. 18, PLATE XI. 81
course, the year in which the inscription was actually composed and engraved; since we
are told at the end that it was all composed by Vatsabhaṭṭi, and the engraving throughout
is obviously the work of one and the same hand.
TEXT.¹
1 [Sid]dh[a]m [||] Y[ô² v]ṛit[t*]y-a[r]ttham=upâsyatê sura-gaṇais=siddhaiś=cha
siddhy=artthibhir=ddhyân-aik-âgra-parair=vvidhêya-vishayair=mmôksh-ârtthibhir
=yyôgibhiḥ | bhaktyâ tîvra-tapôdhanaiś=cha munibhiś=śâpa-prasâda-
kshamair=hêtur=yyô jagataḥ=kshay-âbhyudayayôḥ=pâyât=sa vô bhâskaraḥ |(II)
Tat[t*]va-jñâna-vidô=pi yasya na vidur=brahmarsha-
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