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

270 CORPUS INSCRIPTIONUM INDICARUM, VOL. III.
The inscription does not refer itself to the reign of any king, and is not dated; but,
on palæographical grounds, it may be allotted to the end of the fourth, or the beginning
of the fifth century A.D. It is a Vaishṇava inscription; and the object of it is to record
the making, by an Âchârya named Sômatrâta, of two reservoirs and a house, for the use
of the god Vishṇu under the name of Bhagavat or the Divine One.
The manipulation of General Cunningham's ink-impression, as shewn by the published
lithograph, led to the introduction of the name of the Early Gupta Mahârâja Ghaṭôt-
kacha in line 2; and to the supposition that the name Vishṇu, in the same line, was that
of a Tushâra king who conquered Ghaṭôtkacha, and who might be identified with the third
Kaṇva or Kaṇvâyana prince Nârâyaṇa.¹ As is to be seen, however, in my lithograph now
published, there is no foundation whatever for this; the aksharas that were supposed to
give the name of Ghaṭôtkacha, being, in reality, nothing but dânav-âṅganâ, "(the women)
of the demons;" and tushâra here has no meaning but that of 'frost.'
TEXT.²
1 Jitam³=abhîkshṇam=êva. Jâmbavatî-vadanâravind-ôrjjit-âlinâ ।
2 dânav-âṅganâ-mukhâmbhôja-lakshmî-tushârêṇa Vishṇunâ ।(॥)
3 Anêkapurushâbhyâgat - âryyaSâtvata - y⁴ôgâchâryya -
4 bhagavadbhakta - Yaśastrâta-prapautrasy = âchâryya - Vishṇutrâta -
pautrasy=âchâryya-
5 Vasudatta-p[u]trasya Râvaṇyâm=utpannasya Gôtama-
sagôtrasy=âchâryy-ôpâddhyâya-
6 Yaśastrât-[ân]ujasy=âchâryya-Sômatrâtasy=êdaṁ bhagavat-
pâd-ôpayô-
7 jyaṁ kuṇḍam=uparyy-âvasathaḥ ku-
8 ṇḍaṁ ch=âparaṁ [॥*]
TRANSLATION.
Verily victory has been achieved again and again by (the god) Vishṇu, who is a
mighty bee on the waterlily which is the face of Jâmbavatî, (and) a very frost to (cause
the withering of) the beauty of the waterlilies which are the faces of the women of the
demons!
(Line 3.)—This reservoir, intended for the use of the feet⁵ of the Divine One, (and)
the house above (it), and the second reservoir, (are the work) of the Âchârya Sôma-
trâta,—the son of the son's son of Yaśastrâta, who was the successor of many men (of
¹ Mentioned, for instance, in the Vishṇu-Purâṇa, book IV. chap. xxiv.; F. E. Hall's edition of
H. H. Wilson's Translation, Vol. IV. p. 192.—The Tushâra, Tukhâra or Tushkhara (? Turushka) kings
are mentioned in the same volume, p. 203.
² From the original stone.
³ Over this m, there are the vowel-marks for ô. But they are not connected in any way with the
m; and it is not apparent why they were made, as they cannot possibly stand for the syllable ôm,
and they are altogether superfluous and unmeaning.
⁴ This y is rather an anomalous one; but the character cannot stand for anything else.
⁵ See page 123 above, note 5.