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

280 CORPUS INSCRIPTIONUM INDICARUM, VOL. III.
Gôśûrasimhabala, whose name is partially destroyed, only the first two syllables, Rudra,
remaining.
TEXT.¹
1 A(?)ka .. vihârasvâmi-Gôśûrasimhabala-puttra-Rudra .......
TRANSLATION.
........ the Vihârasvâmin Rudra....... the son of Gôśûrasimhabala......
No. 74; PLATE XLIIB.
CALCUTTA MUSEUM STONE IMAGE INSCRIPTION.
THIS inscription, which has not been previously brought to notice, is from the pedestal of
a sandstone image that is in the Imperial Museum at Calcutta. The image seems to
have been originally a standing statue of Buddha; but the whole of the upper part of it,
above the ankles, is broken away and lost. I have no information as to where it was
found.
The writing, which covers a space of about 9¾" broad by 2¼" high, is in a state
of fairly good preservation, as far as it goes; but it is only a fragment; the conclusion of
it, in the third line, having been cut away, apparently in trimming the stone for some
building purpose.—The size of the letters varies from ¼" to ⁷/₁₆". The characters belong
to the northern class of alphabets.—The language is Sanskrit; and the inscription is
in prose.—In respect of orthography, we have to notice the doubling of t, in conjunction
with a following r, in attra and pttrôḥ, line 2.
The inscription does not refer itself to the reign of any king, and is not dated; but,
on palæographical grounds, it may be allotted roughly to the fifth century A.D. It is a
Buddhist inscription. And the object of it is to record the gift, by a Śâkya mendicant
named Dharmadâsa, of the image on the pedestal of which it is engraved.
TEXT.²
1 Dêya-dharmô=yaṁ Śâkya-bhikshôr-Dharmadâsasya [।*] ya-
2 d-attra puṇyaṁ tan=mâtâpittrô[ḥ*] sarva-sat[t*]vânâṁ ch=â-
3 [nuttara⁴-jñân-âvâptayê=stu ॥]
TRANSLATION.
This (is) the appropriate religious gift of the Śâkya Bhikshu Dharmadâsa. What-
ever religious merit (there is) in this (act), [let] it [be for the acquisition of supreme
knowledge] by (his) parents and by all sentient beings.

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¹ From the original pillar ² From the original stone.
³ This s was at first omitted, and then inserted above its proper place.
⁴ This last line has been entirely cut away and lost, apparently in trimming the stone for some
building purpose