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

THE GUPTA INSCRIPTIONS; No. 21. 93
6 mittrân=uva(?)tya(?)ra(?) kil=ânuyâtaḥ || Kṛitvâ [cha*] y[u]ddhaṁ su-
mahat-prak[â]śaṁ svarggaṁ gatô divya-narê(?)[ndra-kalpaḥ]
7 bhakt=ânuraktâ cha¹ priyâ cha kântâ bh[â]r[y]=â[va]lag[n]=ânugat=
âg[n]i-r[â]śim ||
TRANSLATION.
Ôm! In a century of years, increased by ninety-one; on the seventh lunar day of
the dark fortnight of (the month) Śrâvaṇa; (or in figures) the year 100 (and) 90 (and) 1;
(the month) Śrâvaṇa; the dark fortnight; the day 7:—
(Line 2.)—(There was) a king, renowned under the name of . . . . râja, sprung from
the . . laksha(?) lineage; and his son (was) that very valorous king (who was known) by
the name (of) Mâdhava.
(L. 3.)—His son was the illustrious Gôparâja, renowned for manliness; the
daughter’s son of the Śarabha king; who is (even) now(?) the ornament of (his) lineage.
(L. 5.)—(There is) the glorious Bhânugupta, the bravest man on the earth, a mighty
king, equal to Pârtha, exceedingly heroic; and, along with him, Gôparâja followed
. . . . . . . . (his) friends (and came) here. [And*] having fought a very famous battle,
he,² [who was but little short of being equal to] the celestial [king (Indra)], (died and)
went to heaven; and (his) devoted, attached, beloved, and beauteous wife, in close com-
panionship, accompanied (him) onto the funeral pyre.
No. 21; (No PLATE.)
KHÔH COPPER-PLATE INSCRIPTION OF THE
MAHARAJA HASTIN.
THE YEAR 156.
THIS inscription appears to have been discovered, about 1852, by Colonel Ellis, Poli-
tical Agent at Nâgaudh, and was first brought to notice in 1858, in Mr. Thomas’ edition
of Prinsep’s Essays, Vol. I. p. 251 f., by Professor H. H. Wilson’s translation, combining
both this and the next inscription of the year 163, from Mr. Thomas’ reading of the texts.
—In 1861, in the Jour. Beng. As. Soc. Vol. XXX. p. 6 ff., Dr. Fitz-Edward Hall published
his reading of the text, and a translation of it, from the original plates.—And in 1879, in
the Archæol. Surv. Ind. Vol. IX. p. 11, No. 1, General Cunningham, in partially reprinting
Dr. Hall’s translation, substituted a close approximation to the correct interpretation of
the date, agreeing with Professor H. H. Wilson and differing from Dr. Hall; and also
gave a lithograph of the passage containing the date (id. Plate iv. No. 1.)
The inscription is on some copper-plates that were found somewhere in the valley
near the village of Khôh,³ about three miles south-west of Uchaharâ,⁴ the present capital
¹ The metre is faulty here, as the cha, which should remain short, is lengthened by the following
double consonant, pr.
² Gôparâja.
³ The ‘Kho’ of maps. It should be in the Indian Atlas, Sheet No. 89, but is not shewn there.
— khôh means literally ‘a cave.’
⁴ The ‘Oochaira, Uchahara, Uchara, Uchera, Ucheyra, Uhchehra, Unchehra, Unchehrah, Unchera,
Urchara, and Urcharah,’ of maps, &c. Indian Atlas, Sheet No. 89. Lat. 24° 23′ N.; Long. 80° 51′ E.—