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

118 CORPUS INSCRIPTIONUM INDICARUM, VOL. III.
charter is given, in both words and numerical symbols, as the year one hundred and seventy-
four, and the fourteenth day, without any specification of the fortnight, of the month
Âshâḍha (June-July). There is no information given as to the era. But the Bhumarâ
pillar inscription of the Mahârâjas Hastin and Śarvanâtha, No. 24 above, page 110,
shews that the Parivrâjaka Mahârâjas and the Mahârâjas of Uchchakalpa were contem-
poraries; and, therefore, that the era of the latter must be the same with that of the former,
which is distinctly indicated as being the Gupta era. And the result, accordingly, for the
present date, is A.D. 493-94. The inscription is non-sectarian; the object of it being only
to record the grant, by the Mahârâja Jayanâtha, to a Brâhmaṇ, of the village of
Chhandâpallikâ in the Nâgadêya¹ santaka.²
TEXT.³
First Plate.
1 Om Svasti Uchchakalpân=mahârâja-Ôgha⁴dêvas=tasya puttras=tat-pâd-
ânudhyâtô mahâ-
2 dêvyâṁ Kumâradêvyâm=utpannô mahârâja-Kumâradêvas=tasya puttras=
tat-pâd-[â*]nudhyâtê(tô)
3 mahâdêvyâṁ Jayasvâminyâm=utpannô mah[â*]râja-Jayasvâmî tasya
puttras=tat-pâd-[â*]nudhyâtê(tô)
4 mah[â*]dêvyâ[ṁ*] Râmadêvyâm=utpannô mahârâja-Vy[â*]ghras=tasya
puttras=tat-pâd-ânudhyâtô mahâ-
5 dêvyâm=Ajjhitadêvyâm=utpannô mahârâja-Jayanâthaḥ kuśalî Nâgadêya-
santaka-Chha-
6 ndâpallikâyâṁ brâhmaṇ-âdin=kuṭumbinaḥ kârukâṁś=cha samâjñâpayati [।*]
Vadataṁm=bô⁵=stu
7 yath=aisha grâmô mayâ sva-puṇy-âbhivṛiddhayê Kâṇvasagôttra-Vâja-
sanêyaMâdhya-
8 ndina-brâhmaṇa-Mittrasvâminaḥ s-ôdraṅgaḥ s-ôparikaraḥ a-châṭa-bhaṭa-
prâvêśyaḥ
9 chôra-varjjitô=tisṛishṭas=Tê yûyam=asya samuchita-bhâgabhôga-kara-pratyây-
ôpa-
10 nayaṁ kaka(ri)shyatha âjñâ-śravaṇa-vidhêyâś=cha bhavishyatha [।*] Yê
ch=âsmad-vaṁś-ôtpadya-
11 mânaka-râjânas=tair=iyaṁ dattir=nna vilôpy=ânumôdanîyâ samuchita-râj-â-
12 bhâvya-kara-pratyâyâ na grâhyâḥ [।*] Yaś=ch=aimâṁ dattiṁ lôpayêt
sa pañchabhiḥ
¹ As regards Gen. Cunningham’s desire to identify Nâgadêya with the modern Nâgaudh, see
page 94 above, note 1.
² santaka is a technical territorial term, the exact meaning of which is not apparent. It is
perhaps identical in etymology with the Prâkṛit santaka, 'belonging to,' in asmat-santaka,
'belonging to Us,' which occurs in the Vâkâṭaka inscriptions, No. 55 below, line 21, and No. 56,
line 23.—In No. 29 below, line 7, we have the slightly different form, as a territorial term, of
santika.
³ From the original plates.
⁴ Read râj-augha.
⁵ Read viditam vô.