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

THE GUPTA INSCRIPTIONS; No. 46, PLATE XXIX B 213

No. 46; PLATE XXIX B.

DEO-BARANARK INSCRIPTION OF JIVITAGUPTA II.

THIS inscription was discovered in 1880-81 by General Cunningham; and was first
brought to notice by him, in 1883, in the Archæol. Surv. Ind. Vol. XVI. pp. 68 and 73 ff.,
where he published a reading of the text, and a partial translation of it, supplied to him by
Dr. Bhagwanlal Indraji, with a lithograph (id. Plates xxv. and xxvi.) from a photograph
by his Assistant, Mr. H. B. W. Garrick.
p. 190 f., No. 3. It is a Vaishṇava inscription; and, therefore, as pointed out by Dr R. Mitra, it does
not belong properly to the temple of Vaidyanâtha, which is a Śaiva shrine; and, from the conclud-
ing words, it seems to have been brought away from some building on the Mandâr Hill. I had no
opportunity of obtaining a proper impression of the inscription. But the one in the Society's library
suffices to shew that Dr R. Mitra's version of the text, which I now give, with my own translation of
it, is correct:—

TEXT.

Śâstâ samudrânta-vasundharâyâḥ yashṭ=Aśvamêdh-âdya-mahâ-
kratûnâm | Âdityasênaḥ prathita-prabhâ-
vô babhûva râj=âmara-tulya-têjâḥ || Mâghyâm Viśâkhâ-pada-
saṁyutâyâṁ Kritê yugê Chôla-purâd=a-
pêtya mahâ-maṇînâm=ayuta-trayêṇa trilaksha-châmîkara-ṭaṅkakêna ||
Ishṭv=âśvamêdha-trita-
yêna dattvâ . . . . . . . . . . . . kôṭi-yuktam | śrî-Kôshadêvyâ
sahitô ma? .â .chikarat
rttim=imâm sa sarvvâm || . . . vê . . . 'thêna vidhivat=
dvijêndraiḥ svayam yathâ vê . . . narêndraḥ |
kalyâṇa-hê . . .
tôr=bhuvana-trayasya chakâra saṁsthâṁ Nṛiharêḥ sa êva ||
Sthâpitô Balabhadrêṇa varâhô bhukti-mukti-
daḥ | svarg-ârthê pitṛi-mâtṝiṇâṁ jagataḥ sukha-hêtavê || Iti
Mandâragiri-prakaraṇaṁ ||

TRANSLATION.

There was a king, Âdityasêna, of renowned prowess, equal in glory to the
gods; the ruler of the (whole) earth up to the shores of the oceans; the performer
of the aśvamêdha and other great sacrifices. On the full-moon day of (the month)
Mâgha, coupled with the sign of (the lunar asterism) Viśâkhâ, in the Kṛita age,
—having arrived from the Chôla city,—having sacrificed with three aśvamêdha-
sacrifices, (and) having given away his own weight a thousand times over,
together with a crore of horses,—he, with (his) consort, the glorious Kôshadêvî,
caused to be made the whole of this famous work (kîrtti), with three myriads
of large jewels (and) three lakhs of gold (coins of the kind called) ṭaṅkakas.
Having consecrated (it) according to due rite (through the ceremonies performed)
by Brâhmans, just as if he, the king, himself (was laying out) the path of the
Vêdas, he made an establishment of (the god) Nṛihari, who is the cause of the
prosperity of the three worlds. A boar (i.e. the god Vishṇu in that form), the giver
of enjoyment and final emancipation, has been set up by Balabhadra, in order
that (his) parents may attain heaven, (and) for the happiness of the (whole)
world. Thus runs the chapter on the Mandâragiri.