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

THE GUPTA INSCRIPTIONS; No. 48, PLATE XXX B. 221
TRANSLATION.
(There was) the illustrious Mahârâja Harivarman, whose fame stretched out beyond
the four oceans; who had other kings brought into subjection by (his) prowess and by
affection (for him); who was like (the god) Chakradhara, in employing (his) sovereignty¹
for regulating the different castes and stages of religious life; (and) who was the remover
of the afflictions of (his) subjects. His son, who meditated on his feet, (was) the illustri-
ous Mahârâja Âdityavarman, begotten on the _Bhaṭṭârikâ_² and _Dêvî_³ Jayasvâminî.
His son, who meditated on his feet, (was) the illustrious Mahârâja Îśvaravarman,
begotten on the Bhaṭṭârikâ and Dêvî Harshaguptâ. His son, who meditated on his
feet, (was) the Mahârâjâdhirâja, the glorious Îśânavarman, begotten on the Bhaṭṭârikâ
and Dêvî Upaguptâ.⁴ His son, who meditates on his feet, (is) the most devout wor-
shipper of (the god) Mahêśvara, the Mahârâjâdhirâja Śarvavarman, the Maukhari,
begotten on the Bhaṭṭârikâ and Mahâdêvî Lakshmîvatî.⁵
No. 48; PLATE XXX B.
BARABAR HILL CAVE INSCRIPTION OF ANANTAVARMAN.
THIS inscription appears to have been discovered, about 1785, by Mr. J. H. Harington,
and was first brought to notice, in 1790, in the Asiatic Researches, Vol. II. p. 167 f.,
where Sir Charles Wilkins published his translation of it, apparently from a copy made
under the direction of Mr. Harington.⁶—In 1837, in the Jour. Beng. As. Soc. Vol. VI.
p. 674 ff., Mr. James Prinsep published his reading of the text, and a translation of it,
accompanied by a lithograph (id. Plate xxxvi. Nos. 15, 16, and 17) reduced from an
ink-impression taken under the direction of Mr. Hathorne.—And in 1884, in the Ind.
Ant. Vol. XIII. p. 428, note 55, Dr. Bhagwanlal Indraji has incidentally published his own
reading of the text.
The Barâbar Hill, the ancient Pravaragiri of this inscription, stands about a mile
and a half away on the north side of the village of Panâri,⁷ which is about fourteen miles
to the north by east of Gayâ,⁸ the chief town of the Gayâ District in the Bengal Presiden-
cy In the south part of the hill there is a cave-temple, which it has become the custom
to call the "Lômaśa Ṛishi Cave,"⁹ and the original construction of which is allotted by
¹ Typified by the chakra, or 'wheel (of his chariot).'—chakra means also the discus of Vishṇu,
and hence the point of the comparison.
² Bhaṭṭârikâ, lit. 'she who is entitled to reverence or homage,' is the feminine form of bhaṭṭâraka
(see page 17 above, note 1). It is used here as a technical title of a wife of a Mahârâja; but, in
line 7 below, it occurs also as the title of a wife of a Mahârâjâdhirâja.
³ Dêvî, lit. 'goddess,' is another technical title of a wife of a Mahârâja.
⁴ See page 220 above, note 3. ⁵ See page 220 above, note 5.
⁶ See also the Calcutta reprint of the Asiatic Researches, Vol. II. p. 128.
⁷ The 'Punaree-Ferozpoor' of the Indian Atlas, Sheet No. 103. Lat. 24° 59' N.; Long. 85° 7'
E. The hill itself is entered under the name of 'Baraber Hill,' and is a Trigonometrical Survey Sta-
tion.
⁸ The 'Gya of maps, &c.
⁹ Marked C. in Gen. Cunningham's sketch given in the Archæol. Surv. Ind. Vol. I. p. 40,
Plate xviii.