Kudopali plates of the time of Mahābhavagupta year 13

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Current Version:  draft, 2024-12-17Z

Editor:   Amandine Wattelier-Bricout.

DHARMA Identifier: INSSomavamsin00026

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Alternative identifier: Kudopali Plates of the Time of Mahābhavagupta II Kielhorn1896-1897_05

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    Layout: -36 lines are observed/preserved on the artifact.

    Edition

    peṁṭāpahālātalikitamvolabholichatrasatau|

    ⎘ plate 1v 1Oṁ svasti⟨.⟩ śrī-yayāti-nagare pa¿ma?⟨ra⟩mamāhesvara-paramabhaṭṭā-
    2raka-mahārājādhirāja-pa⟨ra⟩meśvara-soma-kula-tilaka-trika-
    3liṅgādhipati-śrī-mahāśivagupta-rājadeva-pādānudhyāta-parama-mā-
    4heś⟨v⟩ara-paramabhaṭṭāraka-m¿ā?⟨a⟩hārājādhirāja-parameśvara-soma-ku-
    5la-tilaka-¿tr̥i?⟨tri⟩kaliṅgādhipati-śrī-mahābhavagupta-rājadeva-mahī-
    6-pravarddhamāna-kalyā¿n?⟨ṇ⟩a-vijayarājye trayodaśa-samvatsare {Ā}trāṅke sa-
    7mvata 13 (vvā)maṇḍāpāṭ{ṭ}ī-samāvāsakāta parama-māheśvara-maṭhara-
    8-vaṁ¿ṣ?⟨ś⟩odbhava-kula-tilaka-k(ā)leśvar¿i?⟨ī⟩-vara-lavdha-prasāda-pañca-daśa-pallikā-
    9dhipati-samadhigata-pañca-mahāśavda-māṇḍalika-rāṇaka-śrī-puṇja -
    ⎘ plate 2r 10(vvo)ḍā-suta⟨ḥ⟩ kuśal¿i?⟨ī⟩ giḍāṇḍā-maṇḍala-prativaddha-loIsarā-grāmya
    11sa-garttośara sa-jala-sthala sāmvra-madhu sa-(vā)ṭṭa-viṭṭapāranya cā-
    12tuḥ-sima-paryānta Ācāṭa-bhaṭa-praveśa sarvva-vādhā-vivarji-
    13ta sarvvaoparikara-karāvāṁ-sahita vrāhmaṇāṁ sampujya tatra pratinivā-
    14sino rājaputra-talavargi-sāmavāji ca sarvve janapadāṁ
    15samājñāpayati viditam astu bhavatāṁ hastipada-vinirgata kauṇḍi¿ṇ?⟨n⟩ya
    16gotra mitrāvvaruṇa-pravara ka¿n?⟨ṇ⟩va-śākhāddhyai bhaṭṭaputra-śrī-nārāyaṇa danārdana-suta
    17sasaliladhārā-puraścareṇam a-candra-tārkārka-khiti-samakālopa-
    18bhogārttham mātāpitror ātma⟨na⟩ś ca pu¿n?⟨ṇ⟩ya-yaśopivarddhaE tāmra-śā -
    ⎘ plate 2v 19sanenākar¿i?⟨ī⟩kr̥tya pratipāditosmābhi⟨ḥ⟩ śāsana-gauragaura-
    20vā dharmma-gauvaṇā ca bhavadbhī pratipālanipā tathā coktaṁ dharma-
    21-śāstre

    I. Anuṣṭubh
    vahubhir vvasudhā dattā
    rājana sagarā⟨di⟩bhiḥ
    yasya yasya yadā 22bh(ū)mi
    tasya tasya tadā phalam

    II. Anuṣṭubh
    mā bhūd a{ḥ}-phala-śaṁkā va⟨ḥ⟩
    para-dateti 23pārthiv¿a?⟨āḥ⟩
    sva-dānāt phalam ¿a?⟨ā⟩nantyaṁ
    para-datānupālane

    III. Anuṣṭubh
    śaṣṭiṁ varśa24–sahasrāṇi
    svarge (m)odati bhūmida|
    ⟨Ācchettā cānumantā ca⟩
    ⟨tāny eva narake vaset⟩

    IV. Anuṣṭubh
    bhūmī yaḥ pratigr̥hṇanti
    yasya bhūmi 25prayacchati
    Ubhau tau punya-karmāṇau
    niyatau taṁ svarga-⟨gā⟩minau|

    V. Anuṣṭubh
    Āditya varu26ṇo viṣṇu
    vrahmā somo hutāśana
    śūlapāṇis tu bhagavāṁ
    mabhinandanti bhū27mida

    VI. Anuṣṭubh
    bhūmidātā kule jātā
    sa nyas trātā bhaviśati
    Ubhau tau punya-ka ⎘ plate 3r 28rmāṇau
    niyatau taṁ svarga-gāminau|

    VII. Anuṣṭubh
    taḍāgānāṁ sahasrāṇi
    29japeya-śatāni ca
    gavāṁ koṭṭi-pradānena
    bhūmi-harttā na śu30dhyati|

    VIII. Anuṣṭubh
    harate hāravate yas tu
    manda-vuddhis tamā-vr̥ta
    sa vaddhaḥ vāru31ṇai pāśai
    tiryag-yoni ca gacchati|

    IX. Anuṣṭubh
    sva-datt¿a? para-dattām vā
    yo 32hared vasundharā
    sa viṣṭhāyāṁ kr̥mir bh¿u?⟨ū⟩tvā
    pitr̥bhi⟨ḥ⟩ saha pa33cyate|

    X. Puṣpitāgrā
    Iti{ḥ} kamala-dalāmvu-vindu-lolā
    śrīm anucintya manuṣya-ji34vitaṁ ca
    sakalam idam udāhr̥taṁ ca vuddhāḥ
    na hi puruṣaṁ para-kirtima vilo35pyate|

    | lenapura-śreṣṭhi-śrī-kiraṇa-suta-(pū)rṇṇadat(e)na Idaṁ tāmvraṁ yalikhi
    36taṁ

    Apparatus

    7-9 Kielhorn 1896–1897: note 8, page 258 mentions that from here to the end of line 9 the writing seems to have been engraved over a cancelled passage.
    7 -samāvāsakāta Kielhorn 1896–1897 suggests reading samāvāsakāt.
    10 °grāmya Kielhorn 1896–1897: note 15, page 258: ‘From here the arrangement and the details of the text are quite incorrect. What the writer meant to say, would be about this: loIsarā-grāme brāhmaṇān saṁpūjya tatra pratinivāsano rājaputra-talavargi-sāmavāji[kādīn] sarvān janapadān samājñāpayati | viditam astu bhavatāṁ [yathāyam grāmaḥ] sa-gartoṣaraḥ sa-jala-sthalaḥ sāmra-madhūkaḥ sa-vāṭa-viṭapāraṇyaś catuḥ-sīmā-paryanto cāṭa-bhaṭa-praveśaḥ sarva-vādhā-vivarjitaḥ sarvoparikara-karādāna-sahito hastipada-.’
    23 pārthiv¿a?⟨āḥ⟩pārthiva K23 ¿a?⟨ā⟩nantyaṁanantyaṁ K
    32 bh¿u?⟨ū⟩tvābhutvā K32 pitr̥bhi⟨ḥ⟩pitr̥bhi K
    33 Iti{ḥ}Itiḥ K

    Translation by Amandine Wattelier-Bricout

    Commentary

    avagraha and virāma are absent in this set. Kielhorn 1896–1897: page 256 bases his datation on the particular form of the initial vowel e and states that this inscription cannot have been written earlier than about the first half of the 12th century A.D.

    Bibliography

    Primary

    Kielhorn, Lorenz Franz. 1896–1897. “Kudopali Plates of the Time of Mahābhavagupta II.” EI 4: 254–59.
    [siglum K]
    Rajaguru, Satyanarayan. 1966. Inscriptions of Orissa, Vol. 4. Sri Sarada Press. [https://archive.org/details/inscriptions-of-orissa-v04-1966].
    № 37, pages 237–241. [siglum R]
    Shastri, Ajay Mitra. 1995. Inscriptions of the Śarabhapurīyas, Pāṇḍuvaṁśins and Somavaṁśins, Part II: Inscriptions. New Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Motilal Bandarsidass.
    № XIX, pages 263–267. [siglum S]

    Secondary

    Bhandarkar, Devadatta Ramakrishna. 1927–1936. A List of the Inscriptions of Northern India in Brahmi and Its Derivative Scripts, from about 200 A. C.: Appendix to Epigraphia Indica and Record of the Archaeological Survey of India, Volumes XIX to XXIII. Calcutta: Archaeological Survey of India. [https://zenodo.org/records/3360216].
    S.v. 1561.
    Gai, Govind Swamirao. 1986. Dynastic List of Copper Plate Inscriptions Noticed in Annual Reports on Indian Epigraphy from 1887 to 1969. Mysore: Archaeological Survey of India.
    № 946.
    Tripathy, Snigdha. 2010. Descriptive Topographical Catalogue of Orissan Inscriptions. New Delhi: Manohar Publishers & Distributors.
    Pages 86–87.
    Acharya, Subrata Kumar. 2014. Copper-Plate Inscriptions of Odisha: A Descriptive Catalogue (circa Fourth Century to Sixteenth Century CE). New Delhi: D. K. Printworld.
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