A votive inscription on the pinnacle of the Buṅgadyaḥ chariot by Padma Jaṅga Bahādura Rāṇā recording the replacement of earlier donations of his father's (ŚS 1801)
ID: NHDP_0001_0143
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Abstract
This votive inscription from Jaṅga Bahādura's son Padma Jaṅga Bahādura Rāṇā records the replacement of a golden Vajrasattva and silver nāga idol earlier offered by his father to Matsyendranātha.Diplomatic edition
[1r]
1श्रीगणेशायेनम ॥ मत्सेन्द्राय पु[?]1 पित्रा [...]णं यद्यदर्पितं इदानीं2जीर्णताप्राप्तं तदुद्धारं कृतं मया ॥१॥ प्रतिमा वज्रसत्त्वस्य जावूनदविनिर्मितां पंचा
3ननं नागवरं राजतं चाहमर्पये ॥२॥ चन्द्रखाष्टशशि शाके माधवे भौमवासरे स्वर
4संवत्सरेशुल्केपक्ष अद्य तिथौ तथा ॥३॥ पद्मजङ्गवहादुरवर्मणा नृपसूनुना
5स्वाभीष्टसिद्धेयेदेवेभुषणादिसमर्पितं
Translation
[1r]
Obeisance to glorious Gaṇeśa! Whatever embellishments offered to Matsyendra[-nātha] by [my] father2 that have become worn, have now been removed by me, [his] son. I offer a [new] golden idol of Vajrasattva and a precious five-faced nāga made of silver. Today, Tuesday, in the dark fortnight of Mādhava3 in the Śāka era year 1801 in the Īśvara Saṃvatsara,4 Padma Jaṅga Bahādura Rāṇā Varmā, the son of a king, has delivered embellishments and the like to the god for the fulfilment of his own desires.
Commentary
This is one of three votive inscriptions by members of the Rāṇā family on the pinnacle (Nev. cunāmvaḥ) of the Buṅgadyaḥ chariot, the other two being NHDP_0001_0141 and NHDP_0001_0142. The inscription is documented by NHDP as LAL0041_I_010 and the object as LAL0001-023 under LAL0001. The identity of the two objects mentioned is not clear. The golden Vajrasattva idol might be the one referred to in NHDP_0001_0142 and documented by NHDP as LAL0001-024. However, this object was offered by Jaṅga Bahādura Rāṇā's wife Kīrti Bhakti Kumārī Devī and their son Ḍamvara Jaṅga Bahādūra Rāṇā, and not by Jaṅga Bahādura Rāṇā himself. The whereabouts of the silver nāga have not been traced so far.