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

286 CORPUS INSCRIPTIONUM INDICARUM, VOL. III.
11 . . . . . . . . . . naśa(?)na(?)-dvija-guru . . . . . . . . . . . . . ॥ . . . . kāritam-ētad=
bhavanaṁ Muradvishō ra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
12 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . yâbhâ(?)su(?)
yutâyâmikâ prakaṭa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
13 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . bahu-matō dharmma-
yaśō-râśi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
14 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . yaḥ(?) ॥ Khaṇḍa¹-
sphuṭita-saṁskāra . . . . dhû . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
15 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . haṁsa-bha . . . . . praśastiḥ
svâ . . . . . . ta(?)ḥ ॥ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
16 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . R[â]machandra-
[pu]ttr[ê]ṇa Dêvakêna ॥

TRANSLATION.

This inscription is too fragmentary for a connected translation to be offered. But
we have to note the following points. Line 1 mentions the city of Kâśî; and line 2
apparently the god Purandara, in connection with it. The passage lost between the last
legible letter in line 2 and the first in line 3, contained the name of a king, in connection
with whom we perhaps have, at the commencement of line 3, a mention of the
Madhyadêśa or Central Country. In his lineage, there was born "another" king
Bâlâditya (l. 3). In the family of the latter, there was born yet another Bâlâditya
(l. 3). His wife was Dhavalâ (l. 4), who is compared with Rôhiṇî, the wife of the Moon,
Gaurî, the wife of Śûlapâṇi, and Lakshmî, the wife of Vâsudêva. Their son was the glorious
Prakaṭâditya (l. 6), whose virtues and prowess, including a comparison of him with the
god Kârttikêya (l. 9), are described in lines 7 to 10, apparently without the introduction of
any further historical matter. Line 11 mentions the building of a temple of the god
Muradvish. Line 14 contained some provision for the repairs of this temple. And line
16 gives us the name of Dêvaka, the son of Râmachandra, apparently as the engraver of
the inscription.

No. 80; PLATE XLIV.

NIRMAṆḌ COPPER-PLATE INSCRIPTION OF THE

MAHASAMANTA AND MAHARAJA SAMUDRASENA.

THIS inscription has been known, to General Cunningham, since 1847 or 1848, but was
not brought to notice till 1879, when Major W. R. M. Holroyd, Director of Public
Instruction in the Pañjâb, having obtained and forwarded the plate on which it is engraved,
Dr. Rajendralala Mitra published his reading of the text, and a translation of it, in the
Jour. Beng. As. Soc. Vol. XLVIII. Proceedings, p. 212 ff.
Nirmaṇḍ² is a village, near the right bank of the Satlaj, twenty-one miles north-east
of Plâch,³ the chief town of the Plâch Tahsîl or Sub-Division of the Kullû⁴ Division of the
Kâṅgra District in the Pañjâb. The inscription is on a copper-plate, which belongs to a

¹ Metre, probably Ślôka (Anushṭubh).
² The 'Nirmand' of maps. Indian Atlas, Sheet No. 47. Lat. 31° 25' N.; Long. 77° 38' E.
³ The 'Plach' of maps.
⁴ The 'Kullu and Kulu' of maps.