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

256 CORPUS INSCRIPTIONUM INDICARUM, VOL. III.
that this construction would not suit a supposed inscription of Samudragupta himself,
which was required in accordance with the seal that was to be attached; and he
promptly then adopted the nominative construction, utpannaḥ .......... Samudraguptaḥ,
without taking the trouble to correct the preceding passages. It is difficult to suggest
any definite time for the fabrication of this grant; on the one side, some of the charac-
ters are antique, e.g. the forms of k, p, m, and r, and particularly h; on the other side,
others are comparatively modern, especially the sh in valatkaushabhyâm, line 7-8. But it
has the general appearance of having been made somewhere about the beginning of the
eighth century A.D. Points which may hereafter serve to fix its date more definitely are.
(1) the use of the Prâkṛit corruption uchchhanna, in line 3-4; and (2) the opening expression
mahâ-nau-hasty-asva &c., in line 1; the only other instances of similar expressions being
in line 1 of the Dêô-Baraṇârk inscription of Jîvitagupta II., No. 46 above, page 215,
and in line 1 of the Dighwâ-Dubaulî grant¹ of the Mahârâja Mahêndrapâla, of A.D.
761-62, and of the Bengal Asiatic Society's grant² of the Mahârâja Vinâyakapâla, of
A.D. 794-95.
TEXT.³
¹ Ôm Svasti Mahâ-nau-hasty-aśva-jayaskandhâvârâj(d)-Â(a)yôddhyâ-vâsakât=
sarvva-râj-ôchchhêttu[h*] pri-
² thivyâm=a-pratirathasya chatur-udadhi-salil-âsvâdita-yaśa[śô*⁴] Dhanada-Varuṇ-
Êndr-Â-
³ ntaka-samasya Kṛitânta-paraśôr=nyây-âgat-ânêka-gô-hiraṇya-kôṭi-pradasya chir-
ôchchha-
⁴ nn⁵-âśvamêdh-âharttu[h*] mahârâja-śrî-Gupta-prapauttrasya⁶ mahârâja-śrî-
Ghaṭôtkacha-pauttrasya⁷
⁵ mahârâjâdhirâja-śrî-Chandragupta-puttrasya⁸ Lichchhavi-dauhittrasya⁹ mahâ-
dêvyâ[m*] Ku-
⁶ mâ¹⁰radêvyâm-utpanna[h*] paramabhâgavatô mahârâjâdhirâja-śrî-Samudra-
⁷ guptaḥ Gayâ-vaishayika-Rêvatikâ-grâmê vrâ(brâ)hmaṇa-purôga-grâma-vala-
⁸ tkaushabhyâm=âha । Êva ch=ârtha[m*] viditam=bô(vô) bhavatv=êśa(sha)
grâmô mayâ mâtâpittrôr=â-
⁹ tmanaś=cha puṇy-âbhivṛiddhayê Bhâradvâja-sagôttrâya Va(ba)hvṛichâya
sav[r]a(bra)hmachâ-
¹⁰ riṇê vrâ(brâ)hmaṇa-Gôpadêvasvâminê s-ôparikar-ôddêśên=âgrahâratvên=âti-
¹ Ind. Ant. Vol. XV. p. 112. ² id. p. 140.
³ From the original plate.
⁴ There is a mark over the śa, which may be only a rust-mark, but which renders it a little doubt-
ful whether yaśô-dhanada was engraved, or yasa dhanada with an omission of sô. The other in-
scriptions, however, shew that the correct reading is yaśasô dhanada &c.
⁵ The other inscriptions all read uttsanna.—Monier Williams, in his Sanskrit Dictionary, suggests
that uchchhanna,—which, in the sense of 'uncovered,' is a regular derivative from ud + chhad,—is, in
the sense of 'destroyed, fallen into disuse,' a Prâkṛit corruption of uttsanna, from ud + sad.
⁶ In order to render the inscription capable of translation, read prapauttraḥ. And, at the same
time, correct all the preceding genitives into nominatives.
⁷ Read pauttraḥ. ⁸ Read puttraḥ. ⁹ Read dauhittraḥ.
¹⁰ This mâ was first engraved closer to the margin of the plate, and then, being indistinct there,
was repeated.