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

THE GUPTA INSCRIPTIONS; No. 27, PLATE XVII. 123
19 Bahubhir=vvasudhâ bhuktâ râjabhis=Sagar-âdibhiḥ [|] rya(ya)sya yasya
yadâ bhûmis=tasya tasya tadâ phalaṁ [||]
20 Sarvva-sasya-samṛiddhân=[t]u yô harêta vasundharâ[ṁ*] [|] sa vishṭhâyâṁ
kṛimi[r*]=bhûtvâ pitṛibhiḥ saha majya(jja)tê [||]
21 Saṁvatsara-śatê sapta-saptaty-u[tta]rê Chaittra-mâsa-divasê dvâ-
viṁśatimê likhitaṁ¹ bhôgika-Phâlgu²datt-âmâtya-
22 mâtya³-naptrâ bhôgika-Varâhadinna-puttra-sândhivigrahika-Gallunâ [|] dûtak-
ôparika⁴-dîkshita-gṛiha-
23 pati-sthapatisamrat-Chharvvadattaḥ [||] Yattr=âghâtâḥ Dhânyavâhika-
pratyuddêśê garttâ pâlî cha [|]
24 Durggamaṇḍala-pradêśê pâlî [|] Suvarṇṇakakshaka-pradêśê gôpatha-
śaraḥ ardhêna cha pâlî [|]
25 Âmuka-pradêśê garttâ [|] Dâramaṇḍala-pradêśrê(śê) pâlî [|] Vakra-
vaṇa-prâvêśya-maṇḍala-pradêśê pâlî [|]
26 grâmê yâvat-kûpaṁ pravishṭâ iti [||]
TRANSLATION.
Hail! From Uchchakalpa;—(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 meditated 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,—being in good health, issues a command
to the cultivators, beginning with the Brâhmaṇs, and to the artisans, at (the village of)
Dhavashaṇḍikâ:—
(L. 6.)—“Be it known to you that, for the purpose of increasing my own religious
merit, (and) for the benefit of the feet of the Divine One,⁵ this village is granted by me, as
an agrahâra of the god, to continue for the same time with the moon and the sun, to
the _Divira_⁶ Sarvavâḍha, of the Śâśatânêya (gôtra) (?), and his son the Bhâgavata Gaṅga,
and his sons Raṅkabôṭa and Ajagaradâsa. And the increase of their own religious merit
should be effected by the succession of (their) sons, [sons’ sons*], sons of sons’ sons, sons of
the latter, &c., by repairing whatever may become broken or torn, and by attending to the

¹ Supply śâsanam.
² Read phalgu.—The name occurs again with the long vowel â in the first syllable, in line 30 of
No. 28 below, and line 11 of No. 30 below. But the correct form, with the short vowel a, occurs in
line 28 of No. 31 below, page 137.
³ Read âmâtya-naptrâ. The syllables mâtya are repeated by mistake.
⁴ Read dûtaka uparika; see page 119 above, note 4.
⁵ i. e. “for the benefit of the Divine One.”—Here, and in line 9 below, the words “the feet” are
only used in accordance with the customary method of respectful mention. No reference is intended
to any shrine containing ‘foot-prints’ of Vishṇu, which would be denoted by the use of pada, not
pâda.
⁶ Divira is a technical official title, explained by Dr. Bühler (Ind. Ant. Vol. VI. p. 10) as meaning
‘a clerk, writer, or accountant,’ on the authority of a passage in the Lôkaprakâśa of Kshêmêndra,
which explains the details of written documents for the benefit of the Diviras.
R 2.