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

220 CORPUS INSCRIPTIONUM INDICARUM, VOL. III.
Magadha, Nos. 42, 43, and 46, Plates xxviii. and xxixA. and B.—The language is
Sanskrit; and the inscription is in prose throughout.—In respect of orthography, we have
to notice (1) the use of the upadhmānîya, in utpannaḥ=parama, line 7; (2) the doubling
throughout of k and t, in conjunction with a following r; e.g. in atikkrānta, line 1, and
puttra, line 3; and (3) the doubling of dh, in conjunction with a following y, in anuddhyāta,
lines 3, 4, 5, and 6.
The seal is one of the Maukhari king Śarvavarman, whose approximate date
is fixed very closely by the mention of his father Îśānavarman, as the contemporary of
Kumāragupta of Magadha, in line 7 of the Aphsaḍ inscription of Âdityasêna, No. 42 above,
page 200. The mere finding of the inscription at Asîrgaḍh of course does not suffice
in any way to connect the members of this family of Maukharis with that locality. Their
territory probably lay some hundreds of miles more to the east. Its real position,
however, is a point that, with the definite date of Śarvavarman, can only be cleared up by
the discovery, if it is still in existence, of the plate itself, to which the seal belongs.
**TEXT.**¹
1 Chatus-sāmudr-ātikkrānta-kîrttiḥ pratâp-ânurâg-ôpanat-ânya-rājā(jô)² varṇṇ-
āśrama-vyavasthā-
2 pana-pravṛitta-chakkraś=Chakkradhara iva prajānām=artti-hara[ḥ*] śri(śrī)-
mahārāja-Harivarmmâ [II*] Tasya
3 puttras=tat-pâd-ânuddhy[ā*]tô Jayasvâminî-bhaṭṭârikâ-dêvy[ā*]m=utpannaḥ
śrī-mahârâj-Âdityava-
4 rmmâ [II*] Tasya puttras=tat-pâd-ânuddhyâtô Harshaguptâ-bhaṭṭârikâ-
dêvyâm=utpannaḥ śrī-mah[ā*]râ-
5 j-Êśvaravarmmâ [II*] Tasya puttras=tat-pâd-ânuddhyâta Upaguptâ³-
bhaṭṭârikâ-dêvyâm=utpannô
6 mah[ā*]râjâdhirâja-śri(śrī)-Îśâna⁴varmmâ [II*] Tasya puttras=tat-pâd-
anuddhyâtô La(?)ksh[m]îva-
7 [t]î⁵-bhaṭṭârikâ-mah[ā*]dêvyâm=utpannaḥ=paramamâhêśvarâ(rô) ma-
8 hârâjâdhirâja-śrī-Śarvvavarmmâ Maukhariḥ [II*]
¹ From the lithograph published with Sir Charles Wilkins and Prof. Wilson's paper; so also the
present lithograph.
² In the absence of the original seal, which possibly was not properly cleaned before it was
copied, I can only treat this, and a few other instances, as mistakes of the original, though they may
be only defects in the lithograph.
³ Sir Charles Wilkins read umāguptā. As regards the second syllable, m and p are very much
alike in the lithograph. But the letter here seems to be p, rather than m; and there is certainly no
ā over it.—In support of my reading, the name Upaguptā occurs in the masculine form, Upagupta,
as the name of the fourth or fifth Buddhist Patriarch (e.g. Ind. Ant. Vol. IX. pp. 149, 315; Buddh
Rec. West. World, Vol. I. p. 182, and Vol. II. pp. 88, 93, 273).
⁴ Read śr-Îśāna.
⁵ Sir Charles Wilkins read harshiṇī; but there are four aksharas to be accounted for, not three.
The first akshara is very doubtful; the second is certainly not rshi, but seems to be ksh[m]ī, rather
imperfectly copied; the third is va; in the fourth, the superscript ī is distinctly visible, and the con-
sonant, which is almost entirely illegible, naturally suggests itself as t.