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

THE GUPTA INSCRIPTIONS; No. 26, PLATE XVI. 119
Second Plate.
13 mahâpâtakair=upapâtakaiś=cha saṁyukta[h*] syân(d)=Uktaṁ cha Mahâ-
bhâratê bhagavatâ
14 Vyâsêna [I*] Sva¹-dattâṁ para-dattâṁ vâ yatnâd=raksha Yudhishṭhira
mahîṁ=mahîmatâṁ śrêshṭha
15 dânâch=chhrêyô=nupâlanaṁ [II*] Bahubhir=vvasudhâ bhuktâ râjabhiḥ
Sagar-âdibhiḥ yasya
16 yasya yadâ bhûmis=tasya tasya tadâ phalaṁ [II*] Prâyêṇa hi
narêndrâṇâṁ vidyatê n=â-
17 śubhâ gatiḥ pûyântê tê tu satataṁ prayachchhantô vasun-
dharâṁ [II*] Shashṭi-varsha-sahasrâ-
18 ṇi svarggê môdati bhûmi-daḥ âchchhêttâ ch=ânumantâ cha tâny=êva
narakê vasêt [II*]
19 Âsphôṭala(ya)nti pitaraḥ pravalganti pitâmahâḥ bhûmi-dô=sma[t*]-kulê
jâtaḥ sa nô(naḥ)
20 ttrâtâ bhavishyati [II*] Sarvva-sasya-samṛiddhân=tu yô harêta vasun-
dharâṁ śva-vishṭhâyâṁ kṛimi-
21 r=bhûtvâ pitṛibhis=saha majjati I(II) Saṁba(mva)tsara-ga(śa)tê chatuḥ-
saptatê Âshâḍha-mâsa-
22 sya chaturddaśamê divasê asyâṁ divasa-purvvâyâṁ² likhitaṁ³ mayâ
bhôgika-Râjyi-
23 l-âmâtya-naptṛi-bhôgika-Dhruvadatta-puttra-bhôgika-Guñjakîrttinâ [I*] Dûtak-
ôparika-⁴
24 dîkshita-gṛihapati-sthapati-saṁrâṭ-Chchha(chha)rvvadatta iti II Saṁba(mva)t
100 70 4 Âshâ-
25 dha di 10 4 I(II)
TRANSLATION.
Ôm! Hail! From (the city or hill of) Uchchakalpa;⁵—(There was) the Mahârâja
Ôghadêva. His son, who meditated on his feet, (was) the Mahârâja Kumâradêva,
begotten on the Mahâdêvî Kumâradêvî. His son, who meditated on his feet, (was) the
Mahârâja Jayasvâmin, begotten on the Mahâdêvî Jayasvâminî. His son, who medi-
tated on his feet, (was) the Mahârâja Vyâghra, begotten on the Mahâdêvî Râmadêvî.
(Line 4.)—His son, who meditates on his feet, the Mahârâja Jayanâtha,—begotten
on the Mahâdêvî Ajjhitadêvî,⁷—being in good health,⁸ issues a command to the
¹ Metre, Ślôka (Anushṭubh); and in the following five verses.
² Supply tithau. ³ Supply śâsanam.
⁴ Read dûtaka uparika. — Dûtaka should be a word by itself, in the nominative singular; not
in composition with uparika.
⁵ The context is in line 5 f.,—"the Mahârâja Jayanâtha ...... issues a command." The
genealogy that intervenes, is by way of a parenthesis.
⁶ See page 16 above, note 2.
⁷ The first part of this name, ajjhita, must be a Prâkṛit word. There might be some tempta-
tion to correct it into the Sanskrit ujjhita; but there is not the slightest approach to the vowel u
below the final m of the preceding word dêvyâṁ, in any of the passages in which it occurs.—Gen.
Cunningham read the name as Majjhitadêvî; but this is incorrect, as there is no trace whatever of an
anusvâra over the vyâ of dêvyâṁ, in any of the passages.—We have another Prâkṛit name in Ijjâdêvî
in line 5 of the Dêô-Baraṇârk inscription of Jîvitagupta II., No. 46 below, Plate xxixB.
⁸ kuśalin; a technical expression of constant use in charters.