Inscription of the time of Ehuvala Chāntamūla year 24

Inscription of the time of Ehuvala Chāntamūla year 24 EpiDoc Encoding Amandine Wattelier-Bricout intellectual authorship of edition Amandine Wattelier-Bricout DHARMA Aubervilliers DHARMA_INSEI35_1_4

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. siddham mahārājasya Ikṣvākūnāṁ śrī-Ehavala-cantamūlasya samvatsaraṁ caturvvīśaṁ varṣa-pakṣaṁ caturtthaṃ divasaṁ pañcamaṃ śrī-parvvate vijaya-puūrryāṁ mahādevī-pariveṇe Irusakānāṁ kula-prasūtasya baraṇakīyānāṁ IĪśvaradattasya putreṇa syandaka-parvvata-śreṣṭhinā kumāranandinā saha bharyyāya śreṣṭhinīya putreṇa ca Iśvarabharttinā śeṣeṇa ca svajana-sambandhi-varggeṇa Iyaṁ bhagavotoaḥ sartvavvasattvottamasya sarvva-guṇa-pāramiī-prāptasya samyak-sambuddhasya śailamayī pratimā pratiṣṭhāpitā Ātmanaḥ sarvva-sattvānāñ ca hita-sukhārtthaṁ bhavati cātra ślokāaḥ.

deya-dharmmam idaṁ kṛtvā yat puṇyaṁ samupārjjitaṁ. tena puṇyeṇa loko 'yaṁ nirvvāṇam adhigacchatu.

Buddhist stone inscription; 11: "the inscriptions begins with the siddham symbol followed by the word siddham. This is rather unusual espacially in an early inscription" [...] "An interesting feature of this Budhsit inscription is that it ends in a stanza of the nature of the benedictory verses generally found at the end of copper-plate grants. It expresses the wish in the Mahāyānastyle that the world might attain Nirvāṇa as a result of whatever merit was achieved as a consequence of Kumāranandin's donation of the deya-dharma, i.e., the gift of the slab bearing the representations of the Buddha, which had no doubt been installed for worship".

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