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

114 CORPUS INSCRIPTIONUM INDICARUM, VOL. III.
undoubtedly the older form of Dâhala, Ḍâhâla, Dahâla, or Ḍahalâ, which seems to represent
the modern Bundêlkhaṇḍ, and which was in later times a province of the Haihayas or
Kalachuris of Tripura near Jabalpur, whose original capital was Kâlañjara in Bundêlkhaṇḍ.
This, therefore, is another item of evidence connecting the Parivrâjaka Mahârâjas with this
part of the country.¹
TEXT.²
First Plate.
1 Ôm Namô bhagavatê Vâsudêvâya || Svasti Nav-ôttarê=vda(bda)-śata-dvayê
Gupta-nṛipa-r[â]jya-bhuktau*
2 śrîmati pravarddhamâna-vijaya-râjyê Mah-Âśvayuja-sa[ṁ*]vatsarê Chaitra-mâsa-
śukla-
3 paksha-trayôdaśy[â*]m=asyâṁ saṁba(va)tsara-mâsa-divasa-pûrvvâyâ[ṁ*]³ [|]
Chaturddaśa-vidyâsthâna-vidi-
4 ta-paramârthasya Kapilasy=[ai]va mah-arshêḥ sarvva-tat[t*]va-jñasya
Bharadvâja-sagôtrasya nṛipa-
5 pi⁴parivrâjaka-Suśarmmaṇaḥ kul-ôtpannêna mahârâja-śrî-Dêvâḍhya-putra-
pranaptrâ mahârâ-
6 ja⁵-śrî-Prabhañjana-pranaptrâ mahârâja-śrî-Dâmôdara-naptrâ gô-sahasra-
hasty-aśva-hiraṇy-ânêka-
7 bhûmi-pradasya guru-pitṛi-mâtṛi-pûjâ-tatparasy=âtyanta-dêva-vrâ(brâ)hmaṇa-
bhaktasy=ânêka-samara-
8 śata-vijayinaḥ s-âshṭâdaś-âṭavî-râjy-âbhyantaraṁ Ḍabhâ(Phâ)lâ-râjyam=
anvay-âgataṁ samadi⁶
9 pâlayipnô(shṇô)r=anêka-guṇa-vikhyâta-yaśasô mahârâja-gri(śrî)-Hastinaḥ
sutêna
10 varṇṇ-âśrama-dharmma-sthâpanâ-niratêna paramabhâgavatên=âtyanta-pitṛi-
bhaktêna sva-vaṁ-
11 ś-âmôdakarêṇa mahârâja-śrî-Saṁkshôbhêna(ṇa) mâtâpitrôr=âtmanaś=cha
puṇy-âbhi-
12 vriddhayê⁷ Chhêḍugômi-vijñâptyâ tam=êva cha sva[r*]gga-sôpâna-paṅktim=
ârôpaya-
Second Plate.
13 tâ bhagavatyâḥ Pishṭapuryâḥ kâritaka-dêvakulê va(ba)li-charu-sat[t*]r-
ôpayô-
¹ It is perhaps worth mentioning, that there is in this neighbourhood a station on the Allahâbâd-
Jabalpur railway, called Ḍabhâurâ (the ‘Dabhura’ and ‘Daboora’ of maps), about fourteen miles
east of Mâṇikpur, and fifty miles east by north of Kâlañjara.
² From the original plates. ³ Supply tithau.
⁴ Read nṛipati.—In the second syllable, first ti was engraved, and then it was corrected into pa.
⁵ This ja was first omitted, and then inserted in the margin of the plate.
⁶ Some correction or other is required here; but it is not apparent what was intended;
possibly, however, samyak, sampadi, or sapadi. I do not suggest samadhîpâlayishṇôr, because I
cannot find any authority for the composition of sam and adhi with pâ, ‘protect’.—In the third syl-
lable, ḍi was certainly engraved; but the i may perhaps have been cancelled.
⁷ Read abhivṛiddhayê.
⁸ The mark over this va is only a fault or rust-hole in the copper. There are several other simi-
lar faults or rust-holes in these two plates; e.g. after sy=ârddhaṁ in line 15.