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

294 CORPUS INSCRIPTIONUM INDICARUM, VOL. III.
palm-leaf records, was reigning in the time of Yayâti or Yayâtikêsarin; and upon his
acceptance of Stirling's date of A.D. 474 to 526 (or 473 to 520) for Yayâtikêsarin, as
correct. I shall discuss the matter at length hereafter. It is sufficient to say, here, that
the date of Yayâtikêsarin, derived from the Orissa records, is altogether unreliable, and is
too early by at least about four centuries; and that, if the identification of the two
Śivaguptas is correct, it leaves no doubt whatever that Tîvaradêva cannot be allotted to
an earlier date than roughly about A.D. 800.
TEXT.¹
The Seal.
a Śrîmat²-Tî³varadêvasya Kôsal-
âdhipatêr=idaṁ
b śâsanaṁ dharmma-vṛiddhy-arttha[ṁ]
sthiram=â-chandra-târakam [॥]
First Plate.
1 Ôm [॥] Jayati⁴ jagat-[t*]raya-tilaka[ḥ*] kshitibhṛit-kula-bhavana-
maṅgala-sûtra[ḥ*] śrîi(śrî)mat-Ti(tî)varadêvô dhaurêya[ḥ*] sa-
2 kala-puṇyakṛitâṁ [॥] Sta(sva)sti Śrîi(śrî)purât=samadhigatapañcha-
mahâśabd-ânêka-nata-nṛipati-kiri(rî)ṭa-
3 kôṭi-ghṛiṣṭa(shṭa)-charaṇa-nakha-darpaṇ-ôdbhâsitô=pi kanthad-unmukha-prakaṭa-
ripu-râja-lakshmî(kshmî)-
4 kêśapâś-âkarshaṇa-durlalita-pâṇipalla[vô] niśita-nistri(stri)ṁśa-ghana-ghâta-pâtit-
âri-dvirada-ku-
5 mbha-maṇḍala-galad-va(ba)hala - śôṇita - sad - âsikta - muktâphala - prakara - maṇḍita-
raṇâṅgana-
6 dvi(vi)vidha-ratna-saṁbhâ⁵ra-lâbha-lôbha-vijṛimbhamâṇ-âri - kshâravâri - vâḍavânalaś=
chandr-ôdaya iv=âkṛita-
7 kar-ôdvêgaḥ kshi(kshi)rôda iv=âdvi(vi)rbhût-ânêk-âtiśayi-ratna-sampat
Garutmân=iva bhujaṅg-ôddhâra-chatura[ḥ*]
8 parâmṛishṭa-ga(śa)tru-kalatra-nêtr - âm̃jana - kômala - kapôla - kuṅkumapatra - bhaṅgat
śishṭ-âchâra-bya(vya)vasthâ-
9 paripâlan-aika-datta-chitta[ḥ*] [।¹*] api cha prâktanê tapasi yaśasi
rahasi chêtasi chakshushi ba(va)p[u]-
Second Plate; First Side.
10 shi cha pûjitô janên=âklishṭatayâ nitântam=a-vitṛiptô gûḍhô(ḍhô) gâḍa(ḍha)-
svachchha-prasanna-ya(va)da-
¹ From the original plates. ² Metre, Ślôka (Anushṭubh).
³ The vowel is somewhat damaged, and it is difficult to say whether i was engraved, or î. In
lines 1 and 18, the short vowel is used in this name; and, in fact, i is used for î throughout the
greater part of the inscription; but the metre of line 1 shews that, in this name, the long vowel î is
the correct one.
⁴ Metre, Âryâ; but one short syllable is wanting in the second pâda.
⁵ The vowel â is partly destroyed by the ring-hole of the plate.