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No. 23.] DHANAIDAHA INSCRIPTION OF KUMARAGUPTA I: THE YEAR 113. 347
I edit the inscription from the original plate :
TEXT. ....... mvatsaral-sat[@] trayodas-õtta. 2... ... n-d[i]Vasa-pårvvåyam parama-daivata-para........ (?) katu[mbi]..... brahmana-Sivasarmma-Nagasarm
ma-maha-5 4.::.va-kirtti-Kshornadatta - Goshthaka • Varggapāla - Pingala - Suvkuka
Kala.......pa (P)-vishnu - [Dēva]éarmma - Vishņubhadra7 - Khāsaka - Rämaka
Gopala6 ....... sa (?) su (?) Sribhadra-Somapala-Rám-idyāḥ (?) grām-ashța-kul
adhikarapañ-cha 7....... vishņuņā (?) vijñāpita iha8 Khada(ta P)para-vishayê=nuvpittal
maryyādá-sthisti]8 ......nlvi-dharmma-kshayēņa labhya[tē] [ta]d-arhatha mam10-ady
inénaiva kkramena(pa) dastum] 9....... samatya=ă(?; bhi hitai(þ ?) sarvvam=ēva * jõā(?)kara-prativesi(?).
kutumbibhir-avasthåpya ka10........ ri * kana * yad-ito *' * [ta]d-avadhritamil-iti yatas
tath=éti pratipădya 11 ....... vakala-nalá[bhya]m-apaviñchhya kshētra-kulyavápam=ēkam dattam
tatah syuktaka12 ....... * bhra(?)tri - kataka - vástavya18 . chhandoga - brāhmaṇa - Varaha
svāmino dattam tad-dha-[va ?] 13. ...... bhúmyå då[n-āksho]po cha gun-āguņam-anuchintya sarira
ka(ka)ñchanakasya chi14 ....... * [u]ktañ=cha bhagavata Dvaipāyanēna Svadattām=para-dattām
[ll]
Shashtim
varsha-sahasrani(pi)
15. ...... [bhib] saha pachyaté
svarggě modati [bhā]mida) [18]
1 Read sanratsara..
* Read -ottare.
Read asyon=dirasa.. • Rond -paramabhaffäraka. In the Damodarpar plates also Kamära-gapta I is styled parama-daivata. • Road, perhaps, mahattara.. •& Mr. Banerji ronds Kshamavanta and Vishyabhadra. • Mr. Banerji reads Maha-khushapära. • Mr. Banerji reads nivatta instead of amritta.
10 Mr. Banerji's reading "maiádya nanu oakkra lēna () " instead of our reading "mam-adya=anen aiva Eleromona(na)" and his remark on the palæography of his supposed la in his own reading lēna () is Quwarranted.
11 Instead of avadhritan iti yatas-tathēti Mr. Banerji read dahyakam=iti yatast(y)ajati.
11 Read alfaka-navaka-nalabhyars. The sense of the whole docament depends on the correct reading of this line of the inscription, and Mr. Banerji's reading gives no help. His reading of the whole line is as follows:" .. ... vara nålaka sada (?) .chya ....... kritya vasa-lak. (?) datta tata suyuktaka ......."
Mr. Banerji rends vantabhya (?) for vastavya and chandala () for ohlandiga. 14 Mr. Bauerji reads furu () gunan, 1 Mr. Banerji roads fasi ).
SB
