Line 1) Ōṁ! Hail! From the great camp of victory, containing¹ ships, elephants and horses and situated at Ānandapura.

       (Lines 1-5) The prosperous Samudragupta, the Mahārājadhirāja, and ardent devotee of Bhagavat (Vāsudēva), who is the exterminator of all kings; who has no equal adversary on earth; whose fame is tasted by the waters of the four Oceans; who is equal to (the gods) Dhanada, Varuṇa, Indra, and Antaka; who is the very axe of Kṛitānta (Death); who is the giver of many crores of lawfully acquired cows and gold; who is the performer Aśvamēdha sacrifice, that had long decayed; who is the son of the son’s son of the prosperous Gupta, the Mahārāja; the son’s son of the prosperous Ghaṭōtkacha, the Mahārāja; (and) the son of the prosperous Chandragupta, the Mahārājādhirāja, the daughter’s son of the Linchchhavi (and) born of the Mahādēvī Kumāradēvī–addresses to (the officers) attached to the Treasury of the two villages; (1) Bhadrapushkaraka pertaining to the Vāvirikshyara district (and) (2) Pūrṇanāga pertaining to the Krivilā district, and says as follows:

       (Lines 6-7) “Be it known to you! For the sake of augmenting the spiritual merit of (my) parents and of myself, these two villages have been granted by me as agrahāra, with the assignment of the uparikara . . . to Jayabhaṭṭa-svāmin . . .

       (Lines 7-10) You should therefore listen to this Traividya (conversant with the three Vēdas) and be obedient to his commands; and all dues in accordance with the customary law of the village should be paid, such as (the find of) gold and so forth. And, from this time forth, the tax-paying cultivatiors, artisans, etc., of other villages should not be allowed to enter by this Traividya; (for) otherwise there would be a forfeiture of the Agrahara.

       (Lines 10-12) Registered² (in) the year 9; the day 2 of Māgha. Drawn up by the order of Gōpasvāmin, Mahāpīlūpati, Mahābalādhikṛita, the Akshapaṭalādhikṛita of Anyagrāma. The Dūtaka, the prince śrī-Chandragupta.

No. 4 : PLATE IV