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THE GUPTA INSCRIPTIONS BILSAḌ STONE PILLAR INSCRIPTION OF KUMĀRAGUPTA I: YEAR 96 the twentieth year of Naravarman’s reign.1 It thus appears that his rule began in Vikrama year 454=397-98 A.D. We may thus safely take it that he was a contemporary and feudatory of the Gupta monarch, Chandragupta II as has been presumed in our treatment of the preceding record. It is a Buddhist inscription and the object of it is to record the excavation of a well by Vīrasēna, son of Bhaṭṭi Mahattara, for the Buddhist mendicants from the four quarters, on the second day of the bright half of Śrāvaṇa in the (Kṛita) year 474. TEXT2 1 [Si]ddhayē [|*]3 Śrīrmmahārāja4-Naravarmmaṇaḥ Ōlikarasya [viṁ]- 6 [tṛi]shṇā-kshayāy=āstu [|*] TRANSLATION (Line 1) For luck !8 (Line 1-3) On the second of the bright half of Śrāvaṇa, when four centuries of years (and) seventyfour (had elapsed),9 in the twentieth year of the reign of the illustrious Naravarmman the iand Ōlikara,10 (Line 3-5) This well was excavated by Vīrasēna, the virtuous son of Bhaṭṭi Mahattara, for the sake of the confraternity of the (Buddhist) mendicants. (Line 5 and 6) May it be for the slaking of the Thirst11 of all creatures. No. 16 : PLATE XVI
BILSAḌ STONE PILLAR INSCRIPTION OF KUMĀRAGUPTA I:
This inscription was discovered in 1877-78 by General Cunningham, and was first
brought to notice by him in 1880, in his reading of the text, and translation of it, published in
1 [See editorial remarks under note 5 below.–Ed.].
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