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

240 CORPUS INSCRIPTIONUM INDICARUM, VOL. III.
Seventh Plate
57 Gautama-sagôtra-Svâmidê[vâ*]ryya[ḥ*] Rêvatîśarmmâryya[ḥ*]
58 Jyêshṭhaśarmmâryya[ḥ*] Śâṇḍilya-Kumâraśarmmâryya[ḥ*] Svâti-
śarmmâ-
59 ryya[ḥ*] Ś[â*]tyâyana(na)-Kâṇḍ[â*]ryya-prabhṛitayaḥ [||] Sênâpatau
60 Chitravarmmaṇi saṁvvatsarê=shṭâdaśa[mê*] 10 8 Jyêshṭha-
mâsa-śukla-
61 paksha-trayôdaśyâ[ṁ*] śâsanaṁ likhitam=itiḥ¹ [||]
TRANSLATION.
The Seal.
A charter of king Pravarasêna, the
ornament of the Vâkâṭakas, who has
attained royal dignity by inheritance, (is)
a charter for (the observance of even his)
enemies!
The Plates.
Sight has been attained!² Hail! From the town of Pravarapura;—(Line 17.)—
At the command of the most devout worshipper of (the god) Mahêśvara, the Mahârâja of
the Vâkâṭakas, the illustrious Pravarasêna (II.),³ who was begotten on Prabhâvati-
guptâ, the daughter of the Mahârâjâdhirâja, the glorious Dêvagupta; who, through
possessing the favour of (the god) Śambhu, is (as virtuous as) one belonging to the Kṛita
age;—
(Line 13.)—(And) who is the son of the Mahârâja of the Vâkâṭakas, the illustrious
Rudrasêna (II.), who acquired an abundance of good fortune through the favour of the
divine (god) Chakrapâṇi;—
(L. 9.)—Who⁴ was the son of the Mahârâja of the Vâkâṭakas, the illustrious
Pṛithivîshêṇa, who was an excessively devout worshipper of (the god) Mahêśvara; who
was endowed with an excess of truthfulness, straightforwardness, tenderness, heroism,
prowess, political wisdom, modesty, and high-mindedness, and with devotion to worthy
people and guests, and with the condition of being victorious through religion, and with
¹ Read iti.—Two forms of the double mark of punctuation are used in this inscription; the
upright form, after anyagrâmêshu=ana in line 42; and the horizontal form, after kuryyâma in line
33-34. The latter rather resembles the visarga. And thus the engraver came to form a visarga,
instead of a double mark of punctuation, after the word iti.
² As regards the Text and my Translation here, Dr. Bühler, while admitting that the opening
aksharas looked like drishṭaṁ or driptaṁ, interpreted them as ôṁ ôṁ.—Dr. Bhagwanlal Indraji read
them as drishṭaṁ.—The mark over the dṛi is not an anusvâra, but only a rust-mark. And the read-
ing is as indisputably drishṭam here, as it is dṛishṭam at the commencement of the next inscription.—
The same word occurs, if possible still more clearly, in the margin of the first plate of the Goa
grant of Satyâśraya-Dhruvarâja-Indravarman (Jour. Bo. Br. R. As. Soc. Vol. X. p. 348 ff.), where Mr.
K. T. Telang (id. p. 360, note) suggested that it might mean 'sanctioned.' But it is of course the
remnant of some such expression as drishṭaṁ bhagavatâ, "sight (i.e. clearness of perception in
religious matters; a thorough insight into the nature of the universe and everything connected
with it) has been attained by the Divine One;" see my remarks on siddham, page 25 above, note 4.
³ The context is "the village named Charmâṅka" &c., in line 18 ff. below.
⁴ i.e. Rudrasêna II.