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

252 CORPUS INSCRIPTIONUM INDICARUM, VOL. III.
1 Siddham [||*] Yaudh[ê]ya-gaṇa-puraskṛitasya mahârâja-mahâsênâpatêḥ
pu .................
2 brâhmaṇa-purôgaṁ ch=âdhishṭhânaṁ śarîr-âdi-kuśalaṁ prishṭvâ likhaty=
Asti Rasmâ ........
3 ² ........................................................................
TRANSLATION.
Perfection has been attained! Of the Mahârâja and Mahâsênâpati, who has been
made the leader of the Yaudhêya tribe, ....................................
................................................................ and having asked
the settlement, headed by the Brâhmans, as to the health of (their) bodies &c., writes—
“There is ... ................................................................
No. 59, PLATE XXXVI C.
BIJAYAGADH STONE PILLAR INSCRIPTION OF
VISHNUVARDHANA.
THE YEAR 428.
THIS inscription was discovered in 1871-72 by Mr. A. C. L. Carlleyle, and was first
brought to notice by him in 1878, in the Archæol. Surv. Ind. Vol. VI. p. 59 ff., where he
published Dr. G. Bühler’s reading of the text and translation,³ from an ink-impression
supplied by himself, with a lithograph (id. Plate viii). It is on a monolith red-sandstone
pillar that stands in a conspicuous position, near the south wall of the Fort, inside the hill-
fort of Bijayagaḍh or Bêjêgaḍh near Byânâ,⁴ the chief town of the Byânâ Sub-Division
of the Bharatpur State in Râjputânâ. The pillar stands on a rubble masonry platform,
which is about 13' 6" high and 9' 2" square at the top. The height of the pillar above
the plinth is 26' 3". The base is square, to the height of 3' 8"; each face measuring 1' 6".
Above this, the pillar is octagonal, for a length of 22' 7"; and it then tapers off to a
point. The extreme top, however, is broken; and a metal spike, which projects from it,
indicates that it was originally surmounted by a capital. The inscription is towards the
south side of the pillar; it runs vertically down the pillar, and is read from the top down-
wards;⁵ and the lowest letter of line 3, the longest line, is about 7' 0" above the level of the
plinth. The platform, on which the pillar stands, is plainly of much more recent construc-
¹ From the ink-impression.
² Several superscript vowels are legible along this line; but the consonants are all broken away
and lost.
³ Both more or less mutilated in publication.
⁴ See page 251 above, and note 3.
⁵ On this point, Mr. Carlleyle’s account is exactly the opposite; but he is wrong; as is, in fact,
shewn by his further statement that line 2 is on the left of line 1, and so on; this could not be the
case, if the inscription ran from the bottom upwards.