North Indian Inscriptions

THE GUPTA INSCRIPTIONS

3 Pu(?)ṁv . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . tra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
4 sphā(?)ra-dva(?) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . kshaḥ .......sphuṭ-ōddhva[ṁ*]sita . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . pravitata . . . . . . . . . .[ﺍﺍ 2*]
5 Yasya [prajñ-ānu]shaṅg-[ō]chita-sukha-manasaḥ śāstra-ta[ttv-ā]rttha-bharttuḥ - - stabdh-ō - U - [ha]ni UUUU - n-ōchchhṛi - - U - - [ﺍ*]
6 [sa*]t-kāvya-śrī-viraudhān¹=budha-guṇita-guṇ-ājñ-āhatān=ēva kṛitvā [vi]dval- lōkē vi[ri]²-sphuṭa-bahu-kavitā-kīrtti-rājyaṁ bhunakti [ﺍﺍ*] [3]
7 [Ā*]ryy=[ai*]h=īty=upaguhya³ bhāva-piśunair=utkarṇṇitairōmabhiḥ sabhyēsh= ūchchhvasitēshu tulyakulaja-m[1*]ān-ānan-ōdvī[kshi][ta*]ḥ [ﺍ *]
8 sn[ē]ha-vyāluḷitēna bāshpa-guruṇā tattv-ēkshiṇā chakshushā yaḥ pitr=abhihitō [n]i[r]ī[kshya] nikhi[lāṁ pāhy=ēva]m⁴=[u]rv[v]īm==i[t]i [ﺍﺍ*] 4
9 [Dṛi]shṭvā karmmāṇy=an[ē]kāny=amanuja-sadṛiśāny=adbhut-ōdbhinna-harshā bh[ā]vair=āsvāda[ya]- U U U U U U - - U - - [kē]chit [ﺍ *]
10 vīryy-ōttaptāś=cha kēchich=chharaṇam=upagatā yasya vṛittē praṇāmē=py= [ar]t[t]i(?) - - U - - U U U U U U - - U - -U - - U [ﺍﺍ*] [5]
11 Saṁgrāmēshu sva-bhuja-vijitā nityam=uchch-āpakārāḥ śvaḥ-śvō mānapra U U U U - - U - - - - [ﺍ*]
12 tō[sh]-ōttuṅgaiḥ sphuṭa-bahu-rasa-snēha-phullair=mmanōbhiḥ paśchāttāpaṁ va U U U U - - U masya [dvishantaḥ]⁵ [ﺍﺍ*] [6]
13 Udvēl-ōdita-bāhu-vīryya-rabhasād=ēkēna yēna kshaṇād=unmūly=Āchyu[ta]- Nāgasēna-G U U - - - U - - U - ⁶ [ﺍ*]
14 daṇḍair=grāhayat=aiva Kōta-kula-jaṁ Pushp-[ā]hvayē krīḍatā sūryyē [nē U U - U- taṭa] U - - - U - - U - [ﺍﺍ*] [7]
15 Dha[rmma]-prāchīra-bandhaḥ śaśi-kara-śuchayaḥ kīrttayaḥ sa-pratānā vaidushyaṁ tattva-bhēdi praśama U U U [uku – y . k U mu(?) t - U - ārttham] (?) [ﺍ*]
16 [addhyēyaḥ] sūkta-mārggaḥ kavi-mati-vibhav-ōtsāraṇaṁ ch=āpi kāvyaṁ kō nu syā[d]=yō=[s]ya na syād=guṇa [iti]⁷ v[i]dushāṁ dhyāna-pātraṁ ya ēkaḥ [ﺍﺍ*] [8]
17 Tasya vividha-samara-śat-āvataraṇa-dakshaya sva-bhuja-bala-parākkram-aika- bandhōḥ Parākkram-āṅkasya paraśu-śara-śaṅku-śakti-prās-āsi-tōmara-
18 [bhi]nd[i]pāla-n[ā]rācha-vaitastik-ādy-anēka-praharaṇa-virūḍh-ākula-vraṇa-śat- āṅka-śōbhā-samuday-ōpachita-kāntatara-varshmaṇaḥ
19 Kausalaka-Mahēndra-Māh[ā]kāntāraka-Vyāghrarāja-Kaurāḷaka⁸-Maṇṭa-

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¹ Read –kāvya-śrī-virōdhān.
² Restore it to vikṛishṭaṁ. [Dr. V. Raghavan would restore it to viśālē (JOR., Vol. XVI, p. 160) while Dr. Sircar restores as vināśi (Sel. Ins., 1965, p. 263). ––Ed.].
³ Dr. B. Ch. Chhabra, however, reads ēhy=ēh=īty=upaguhya (IC., Vol. XIV, p. 143).
⁴ [Better read pāhi tvam=urvvīm=iti. See the article on Chandragupta’s Abdication, Ibid., pp. 141 ff.–Ed.].
⁵ This is Bühler’s reading which is preferable to Fleet’s ma[ṁ(?)] sy[ā]d=vasa(?)nta[m(?)].
⁶ Restore it perhaps to Gaṇapan=ājau samēty=āgatān [Sircar would restore as Gaṇapaty-ādīn=nṛipān saṅgarē (Sel. Ins., 1965, p. 264, note, 1).—Ed.].
⁷ [Fleet reads mati.—Ed.].
⁸ Fleet corrects Kaurāḷaka into Kairaḷaka, for which, he thinks, the word in the text is obviously a mistake. He, no doubt, says that “it is easy to see how the engraver, or perhaps the writer from whose draft he engraved, formed kaurāḷaka, by mistake for kairaḷaka, through a stroke on the right of the k in kai and of the ra.” One slip of stroke is intelligible, but not two, which are presupposed in the engraving of Kaurāḷaka, wrongly for kairaḷaka. It is true that Fleet also maintains that “though kurāla occurs in the sense of ‘a light bay horse with black legs,’ it is not known as the name of a country or a city.” But it has been pointed out (see above, Introduction, p, 15) that this Kurāḷa can easily be identified with Kunāḷa of the Aihoḷe inscription (Ep. Ind., Vol. VI, pp. 1 ff.) and both with the modern Kōllēru (Collair) lake.