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An inscription recording the establishment of a guṭhī at Sūryavanta Mahāvihāra by Jagatamuni and his family (NS 949)

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Edited by Nutandhar Sharma in collaboration with Pabitra Bajracharya and Rajendra Shakya
Created: 2023-03-10; Last modified: 2026-02-27
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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 from Dunenani, the Kacā Bāhāḥ of Vaṃ Bāhāḥ, records the establishment of a guṭhī at Sūryavanta Mahāvihāra by Jagatamuni and his family during the reign of King Rājendra Vikrama Śāha.


Diplomatic edition

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1[...][?]पुण्डरिकाक्ष­सर्व्वग्यकल[...]­[...][...]
2[...]नमामिहां­﹨﹨श्रेयोस्तु­संवत­९४९­[...]
3[...][...]म्यान्तिथौ­||मृगसिरा[...]­विस्कंभ­योगे­[...]
4[...]रासिगते­सवित्रे­||विषरासि[...]­[...]मसि­[...]
5[...]प्रतिस्था­याङा­दिन­जुरो­||श्री­शुर्य्यओन्तमहा
6[...]­[...]श्री­जगत[?]निजु­[...][...]पुत्र­पर्शु­
7[...]त­श्री­च­[...]
8[...]
9[...]जुलो­
10[...]या­
11[...]द­
12[...]गुथि­

Synopsis

Homage is offered to Śākyasiṃha, whose eyes resemble lotus petals, who is omniscient and compassionate, and who is the teacher of Samantabhadra. On the tenth lunar day of the month of Maṃsira, under the constellation Mṛgaśirā and the conjunction Viskaṃbha, when the Sun was in Scorpio(?) and the Moon in Taurus, a guṭhī was established at Sūryavanta Mahāvihāra during the reign of King Rājendra Vikrama Śāha in NS 949. The endowers of the guṭhī were Jagatamuni, Lakṣmī, and their son Paraśu.


Commentary

The edition and synopsis presented here are revised from the printed version published in Basukala et al. 2022: 186 (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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