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

THE GUPTA INSCRIPTIONS; No. 79, PLATE XLIII C. 285
No. 42 above, page 200, Plate xxviii.—The language is Sanskrit. The last line seems
to be in prose; and the rest of the inscription, in verse throughout; though the metres
cannot in every instance be recognised.—In respect of orthography, the only points that
call for notice are (1) the doubling of t, in conjunction with a following r, once, in puttrêṇa,
line 16; and (2) the use of v for b throughout; e.g. in vâlâditya, and lavdha, line 3.
The inscription is one of a king named Prakaṭâditya, whose capital appears to
have been Kâśi, i.e. Benares, which is mentioned in the first line. It is not dated; but,
on palæographical grounds it may be referred roughly to about the end of the seventh
century A.D. It is a Vaishṇava inscription; and the object of it is to record the building
of a temple of the god Vishṇu, under the name of Muradvish, and some provision, the de-
tails of which are lost, for the repairs of it.
The chief interest attaching to this inscription, consists in its mentioning at least two
kings of the name of Bâlâditya. One of them was the father of Prakaṭâditya. The
other was an ancestor of the same name; and, as he himself is called "another"
Bâlâditya, the presumption is that the name of the still earlier ancestor, who was men-
tioned in the passages that have been destroyed in lines 2 and 3, was also Bâlâditya.
And the probability is, that the first Bâlâditya is the one who is so well known in connec-
tion with the history of Mihirakula.
TEXT.¹
1 ....... dê(?)vô(?) ............................................ ॥ .... Kâś'-iti-
vikhyâtaṁ puraṁ kâ(?)mê(?)na bhûshitaṁ । ....................
2 ...... [॥] [Pu]raṁdara i[va] ....................... pataty=ahô(?) ॥
T[u]ṅga-ta(?)raṅga(?)va.. śâstra-vidô ........ tatânâm । kari ....
3 ........ rân²=madhya-da..ṁśam=ânîtaḥ । tad-vaṁśa-sambhavô=nyô Vâ(bâ)lâ-
dityô nṛipaḥ prîtyâ ॥ Tad-gôtra-lavdha(bdha)-janmâ Vâ(bâ)lâdityô
4 ........ patiḥ ॥ Tasya⁴ Dhaval=êti jâyâ pati-vratâ Rôhiṇ-îva
chandrasya । Gaur=îva Śûlapâṇêr=L[l]akshmîr=iva Vâsu[dêvasya ॥]
5 ..... [pra]tâpa-tapt-âmitra-vadhû-sindhu-śô[sha]...... । ........ ti-vinayâ
dvaya-bhṛi(?)taṁ bhakti-dharmm-aika-śakti-satata-prathita ..........
6 ....... nu(?)ḥ suta-vatsala ........................ sutaḥ śauryya-
vinaya-sampannaḥ । śrîmân=Prakaṭâdityô ..............
7 ...... [dvi]ja⁶-vara-nikar-âśrayaḥ pravri(?)ddha(?)-guṇaḥ । kalpa-druma iva
nitarâṁ nishkampaḥ prakaṭa-mûlô=pi ॥ .....................
8 .... [l] .... dvija⁷-gaṇa-sêvyaḥ sa[tata]ṁ vidvat-samudaya-vihita-ruchiḥ ॥
Nir[jj]ita-[du]rjjaya-śat[tru]s=tri.............
9 ....... pû(?)rvvaḥ Kârttikêya iva ॥ Yasya .... va.. nirgata ....
luvdha(bdha)-hṛishṭa-bhramad-bhrama[ra]....vi...........
10 ...... ta⁷-dinaṁ prithu-pushkariṇyaḥ ॥ Ye(?)na(?)⁸ ripu-sundarîṇâṁ
malinâni kṛitâni v[i]pu[la]...............................
¹ From the ink-impression.
² Metre, Ślôka (Anushṭubh)
³ Metre, Âryâ; and probably in the next verse.
⁴ Metre, Âryâ.
⁵ Metre, Âryâ.
⁶ Metre, Âryâ; and probably in the next verse.
⁷ Metre, apparently Vasantatilaka
⁸ Metre, probably Âryâ.