North Indian Inscriptions

THE GUPTA INSCRIPTIONS

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(Metre : Vasantatilaka throughout)

(Lines 1 to 6, containing the whole of the first verse and the first half of the second, are entirely broken away and lost.)

7 [- - U – U U - U U ]² suvarṇṇa-dānē
8 [- -] ritā³ nṛipatayaḥ⁴ Pṛithu-Rāghav-ādyāḥ [||*]2
9 [- -]⁵ babhūva Dhanad-Āntaka-tushṭi-kōpa-tulyaḥ⁶
10 [ U - U] ma-nayēna⁷ Samudraguptaḥ [|*]
11 [- -]pya⁸ pārtthiva-gaṇas=sakalaḥ pṛithivyām
12 [- -]⁹ [sva]-rājya-vibhava-[ddh]rutam=āsthitō=bhūt [||*]3
13 [- -] [va]¹⁰ [bha]kti-naya-vikkrama-tōshitēna
14 [yō] rāja-śabda-vibhavair=abhishēchan-ādyaiḥ [|*]
15 [- -]nitāḥ¹¹ parama-tushṭi-puraskṛitēna
16 [- - U ]vō¹² nṛipatir=aprativāryya-vīryyaḥ [||*] 4
17 [- -]sya¹³ paurusha-parākkrama-datta-śulkā
18 [Hasty-a]śva-ratna-dhana-dhānya-samṛiddhi-yuktā [|*]
19 [- -]ṅ¹⁴=gṛihēshu muditā bahu-putra-pautra-
20 [sa?]ṅkrāmiṇī kula-vadhūḥ.vratinī¹⁵ nivishṭā [||*]5
21 [Yasy=ō]rjjitaṁ samara-karmma-parākkram-ēddhaṁ
22 [- -]¹⁶ [ya]śaḥ su-vipulam=paribambhramīti [|*]
23 [- - ]ṇi¹⁷ yasya ripavaś=cha raṇ-ōrjjitāni
24 [sva]pn-āntarēshv=api vichintya paritrasa[nt]i [||*] 6
25 [ - - U – U U U – U U – U - - ]¹⁸ [-]pta[?]ḥ¹⁹ sva-bhōga-nagar-Airikiṇa-pradēśē
26 [ - - U – U U U – U U – U - - ]²⁰ [saṁsth]āpitas=sva-yaśasaḥ paribṛiṅhan-²¹ ārttham [||*]
27 [ - - U – U UU – U U – U - - ] [- - U] vō nṛipatir=āha yada [U - - ] [|*]

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¹ From the original stone.
² The lacuna may possibly be filled up with yēn=ārthi-Kalpaviṭapēna.
³ Restore it to saṁvāritā.
⁴The letter ta in this word was first omitted by the engraver who later inserted it faintly and in a smaller size below the line at its proper place.
⁵ Restore it to rāja.
⁶ With the exception of lines 9 and 10, the other lines of this inscription, as far as line 24, contain exactly a pāda of each verse. Lines 25 ff. contained exactly two pādas of each verse.
7 This may be restored to [sad-āga]ma. Dr. Sircar restores as parākrama (Sel. Ins., 1965, p. 269).
⁸ Restore it to ājñāpya, Dr. Sircar restores as yaṁ prāpya (ibid.).
⁹ Restore it to yēna. Dr. Sircar restores as paryasta (ibid.).
¹⁰ Restore it to pitr=aiva. Dr. Sircar restores as tātēna (ibid.).
¹¹ Restore it to saṁmānitaḥ.
¹² This may be restored to [Bhū-vāsa]vō. Dr. Sircar restores as sō=yaṁ dhruvō (ibid.).
¹³ Restore it to śrīr=asya. Dr. Sircar restores as Dattāsya (ibid.).
¹⁴ Restore it to nityaṅ=
¹⁵ Read Kula-vadhūr=vratinī.
¹⁶ This may be restored to śukram or śuklam. Dr. Sircar restores as Pṛithvyāṁ (ibid.).
¹⁷ Restore it to [karmā]ṇi. Dr. Sircar restores as kāryāṇi (ibid.).
¹⁸ This may perhaps be restored to bhaktiṁ nidarśayitum=Achyuta-pāda-pīṭhē-.
¹⁹ Restore is to prāptaḥ.
²⁰ This may perhaps be restored to dēv-ālayaś=cha kṛitin=ātra Janārdanasya.
²¹ Read paribṛiṁhaṇ-.