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Stone inscription recording the donation of a window in honor of Yogāmbara and the installation of a Śākyasiṃha Buddha icon by Śrī Devarāja Vajrācārya and his family (NS 859)

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Edited by Nutandhar Sharma in collaboration with Pabitra Bajracharya and Rajendra Shakya
Created: 2023-03-14; Last modified: 2025-11-24
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Published by Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities: Documents on the History of Religion and Law of Pre-modern Nepal, Heidelberg, Germany, 2025. Published by the courtesy of the National Archives, Kathmandu. The copyright of the facsimile remains with the Nepal Rashtriya Abhilekhalaya (National Archives, Government of Nepal). All use of the digital facsimiles requires prior written permission by the copyright holder. See Terms of Use.
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Abstract

A stone inscription located to the west of the entrance to the sanctum records the donation of a window in honor of Yogāmbara and the installation of an icon of Śākyasiṃha Buddha by Śrī Devarāja Vajrācārya and his family.


Diplomatic edition

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1᠀ॐ­नमः­वुद्धाय­||श्रैयोऽस्तु­:सम्वत्‌­८५९­शावण
2मास्य­कृष्णपक्ष­||पचम्यान्तिथौ­ˎˎआश्वणी[?]त्रे­
3वृद्धिजोगे­||जथाकर्णमुहुर्त्ते­||आदित्यवार­
4श्ले­||सिंहरासिगते­सवित्तलि­ˎˎमेषरासिगत­च
5न्द्रमसि­||थ्वकुन्हु­||श्री­३­जोगाव्वंर­प्रीतिन­झ्या
6र­दयका­|म्ह­१­साक्षसिंह­थापना­या[?]­तया
7­दिन­जुरो­||श्री­वज्राचार्य्य­देवरा[...]जु­||भा
8य्या­लक्ष्मीश्वली­माताजु­||पुत्र­श्री­चक्रजोतिजु­
9श्री­धर्म्मराऽजजु­||थ्वपनि­समुहन­दयका­जु
10रो­शुभ­||

Synopsis

Devarāja Vajrācārya, together with his wife Lakṣmīśvarī and his sons Cakrajyoti and Dharmarāja, made a window (jhyāla) and lovingly offered it to the thrice-venerable Yogāmbara. They also installed an icon of Śākyasiṃha Buddha on the fifth day of the dark fortnight of the lunar month of Śrāvaṇa, a Sunday, at the proper time, when the Sun was in Leo and the Moon in Aries, under the constellation Aśvinī and the conjunction Bṛddhi, known as Yathākaraṇa, in NS 859.


Commentary

The edition and synopsis presented here are revised from the printed version published in Basukala et al. 2022: 183 (DOI: https://doi.org/10.17885/heiup.1116). For documentation of this inscription and Vaṃ Bāhāḥ in the DANAM database, see https://danam.cats.uni-heidelberg.de/report/d2578f40-cfce-4450-a8c1-3092c08ef487.

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