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

THE GUPTA INSCRIPTIONS; No. 40, PLATE XXVI. 193
pur' or 'Sambhalpur,'¹ the chief town of the 'Sambalpur' District in the Central Provinces,
where, or in which neighbourhood, another copper-plate inscription of Mahâ-Sudêvarâja
was obtained.² But neither of these proposed derivations can be upheld. And, if
Śarabhapura is represented by any place now existing, we have to look in the maps for
some such name as Sarbhôr or Sâbhôr.
TEXT.
The Seal.
a Prasannna⁴-h[ṛida]yasy=aiva vikkram-âkkrâ[ṁ]tta-
vidvisha[ḥ]
b śrîmatô Jayarâjasya śâsa[naṁ] ripu-śâsanaṁ [॥*]
First Plate.
1 Svasti Śarabhapurât d=vikkram⁵-ôpanata-sâmantta-chûḍâmaṇ[i]-prabhâ-prasêk-
âm-
2 mbubhir⁶=dhô(dhau)ta-pâda-yugalô ripu-vilâsinî-sîmantt-ôddharaṇa-hêtu-
3 r=vasu-vasudhâ-gô-pradaḥ ḥ=parama⁷bhâgavatô mâtâpitṛi-pâ-
4 d-ânuddhyâtaḥ ś=śrî⁸-Mahâ-Jayarâjaḥ Pûrvvarâshṭrîya-Pamvâm⁹-prati-
5 vâsi-kuṭumbî¹⁰naḥ s=sam¹¹âjñâpayati । Viditam=astu vô yath=â-
Second Plate; First Side.
6 smâbhir=ayaṁ grama- । s¹²=tridaśapati-sadana-sukha-pratishṭh-âkarô yâva-
7 d=ravi-śaśi-târâ-kiraṇa-pratihata-ghôr-ândhakâraṁ jaga[d=a*]vatishṭhatê
8 tâvad = upabhôgyas = sa - nidhis = s - ôpanidhir = a - châṭa - bhaṭa - prâvêśyas = sa -
9 rvva-kara-visarjitaḥ Vâji(ja)sanêya-Kauṇḍinyasagôtraḥ Brahma¹³dêva-
10 svâminê ॥(।)¹⁴ mâtâpitrôr=âtmanaś=cha puṇy-ê(â)bhivṛi[d*]dhayê ॥(।) udaka-
pûrvva[ṁ*]
¹ Indian Atlas, Sheet No. 106. Lat. 21° 27' N. ; Long. 84° 1' E.—It is about one hundred and
forty-five miles almost due east of Râypur.
² It has been published by Dr. Rajendralala Mitra, in 1866, in the Jour. Beng. As. Soc. Vol.
XXXV. p. 195 ff. But the original plates, which were presented to the Society by the finder of them,
Col G. Bowie, are not now forthcoming ; and the published version is not sufficiently reliable to be
reproduced. I have, therefore, not been able to include this inscription in the present volume.
³ From the original plates.—Read prasanna.
⁴ Metre, Ślôka (Anushṭubh).
⁵ Read purâd=vikkram.—The t of purât is so small and shallow, that it plainly was only insert-
ed as an afterthought. It is quite superfluous ; since its representative by saṁdhi, viz. d, had already
been duly engraved in conjunction with the following vi.
⁶ Read âmbubhir, or ambubhir.
⁷ Read pradaḥ=parama, or pradaḥ parama.
⁸ Read ânuddhyâtaś=śrî, or ânuddhyâtaḥ śrî.
⁹ From a comparison of the corresponding passage in line 4-5 of No. 41, page 198 below, the
reading that was intended is probably pamvâyâṁ prativâsi.
¹⁰ Read kuṭumbi, or kuṭumbî. ¹¹ Read nas=sam, or naḥ sam.
¹² Read grâmas, expunging the mark of punctuation. ¹³ Read sagôtra-brahma.
¹⁴ This mark of punctuation is exactly like the visarga, as the latter is written in this inscription.
But, that the sign may be interpreted as either a mark of punctuation or the visarga, is shewn by the
regularity with which it occurs where a mark of punctuation is appropriate, and a visarga is not ; and
also by the occurrence of the half mark of punctuation, formed in the same way, and impossible to be
mistaken for anything else, in lines 5 and 6 above, and 22 below, and in lines 5, 15, 16, and 17, of No
41, page 198 below