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

THE GUPTA INSCRIPTIONS, No 64 PLATE XXXIX B. 265
entirely destroyed. The remnant of the inscription does not display any sectarian charac-
ter. The object of it was to record certain grants to a sattra, or charitable hall or alms-
house.
TEXT.¹
First Part.
1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . śr . ku-²
2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . r . . . . . sattra yû(?) 9(?)
3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [di]vasa-pûrvvâyâṁ ma-
4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . guptasy=aiva da . y .
5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [A]nantaguptâya(?yâ)
6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . puṇy-âpyâyan-â-
7 [rtthaṁ] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . sattra-sâ[mâ*]nya-bhôja-
8 [na] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [dî]nâraiḥ . . . . .
9 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vâsô-yugâ-
10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . parô dî-
11 [nâra] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . dînâraiḥ dê(?)va-
12 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [Yaś=ch=ainaṁ] dharmma-skandhaṁ vyu-
13 [chchhindyât=sa pañchabhir=mahâpâta]kaiḥ sa[ṁ]yu-
14 ktaḥ syâd=iti [॥]
Second Part.
15 . . . . sat[t*]ra-sâmânya-bhôjanê . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
16 prati suvaṇṇair=êkân-na-viṁśatibhi[ḥ] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
17 kâritaḥ [। ] Brâhma(?)ṇô mayika . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
18 dvayaṁ 2 karôṭa 2 bra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
19 yugaṁ 1 koṭṭayba sukun . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
20 dakshiṇa-kûla-kañchaḍaṁ paksha . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [॥]
21 Yaś=ch=ainaṁ • vyuchchhin[dy]â[t=sa pañchabhir=mahâ]-
22 [pâ]takais=sa[ṁ*]yuktaḥ [s]y[âd=iti ॥]
TRANSLATION.
It is impossible to give any connected rendering of the contents of this inscription.
We can only note that, in the First Part, we may perhaps have remnants of the name of
Kumâragupta in line 1-2; that there is the name of Anantagupta or Anantaguptâ in line 5,
evidently belonging to some private person; and that lines 7 to 12 appear to have recorded
certain grants, fixed in dînâras, for the purpose of providing food in a sattra or ‘almshouse,’
and also to provide pairs of upper and lower garments. It ends with the usual impreca-
tion against interfering with the continuance of the grant.
The Second Part, again, refers to food in an almshouse, recording something in
connection with it at a cost of nineteen gold coins of the kind called suvarṇa. Other de-
tails follow, including two karôṭas or ‘basins or cups,’ and one pair [of upper and lower
garments]. Then follows apparently a grant of some land, on the south bank of a river.
And the inscription winds up, as before, with the usual imprecation against interfering with
the grants.
¹ From the original stone.    ² Possibly the original had śrî-Kumâraguptasya.