41. Amgura (Kalahandi District, Orissa) plates, RY year 3.
JESI, iv, 70-75 with illustrations on pp. 72-74 (Snigdha Tripathy), Indian Museum Bulletin XI, part 1, pp. 57-59 (D.C. Sircar and Jitamitra Prasad Singh Deo), AMS, I: IV.

Language: Sanskrit. In prose except for the benedictory and imprecatory stanzas and the inscription on the seal.
Metres: Verses 1-3, 5: Anuштubh; Verse 4: Indravajrа.
Script: Box-headed variety of the Central Indian alphabet.
Date: Regnal year 3, Mаgha 7. About the middle of the sixth century A.D.
Each plate measures 5-9/10" in length and 3-2/10" in breadth.
The seal has a diameter of 3-4/10" Its surface is divided into two parts by a couple of horizontal lines drawn across it. The upper part contains the representation, in relief on a countersunk surface, of the goddess Lakшmи standing to full front being bathed by an elephant on her either side standing on a lotus flower by the trunk raised above her head. A full blown lotus is to be seen in the right corner and a conch shell on the proper left. The lower half is occupied by a stanza in the Anuштubh metre incised in two lines.
(AMS)

TEXT

First Plate

1 Siddham | Svasti [|*] Щarabhapurаt-parama-bhаgavatо mаtа-pitр-pаd-аnu-
2 ddhyаtaщ=щrи-Mahа-Jayarаja[х*] sаmparаja-bhuktиya-rаjyagrаmе pra-
3 tivаsinas-samаjгаpayati [|*] viditam=astu vо yath=аsmа-
4 bhir=ayaм grаmо vаjasanеya-kauщika-sagоtra-brаhmaнa-viшнu-svа-
5, minе mаtа-pitrоr=аtmanaщ=ca puнy-аbhivrрddhayе udakapуrvva[м] tаmra-

Second Plate: First Side

6 щаsanеn-аtisрштas=tе yуyam=еv-оpalabhyаsy-аjга-щravaнa-vidhеyа bhу-
7 tvа yathоcitaм bhоga-bhаgam=upanешyatha [|*] bhaviшyataщ=ca bhуmipаlа-
8 n=bоdhayati [|*] bhavadbhir=apy=asyа dattе[х*] pratipаlanaм kartavya-
9 m-ataщ-ca vyаsa-gиtаn=api щlоkаnudаharaмti(ranti) | bahubhir=vvasudhа
10 dattа rаjabhis=sagar-аdibhiх [|*] yasya yasya yadа bhуmis=tasya tasya

Second Plate : Second Side

11 tadа phalaм(lam) [||1*] sva-datta(ttам) para-dattам vа yatnаd=rakшa Yudhiштhira [|*] ma-
12 hи(hим) mahиmatа(tам) щrештha dаnаc=chrеyо=ёnupаlanaм(nam) [||2*] шaштhim-varшa-
13 sahasrанi svarggе vasati bhуmi-daх [|*] acchеptа c=а-
14 numantа-ca tаny=еva narakе vasе[t*||][||3] agnеr=apatyaм prathamaм-
15 suvarннaм bhуr=vvaiшнavи sуryya-sutащ=ca gаva[х|*] lоkas=traya-

Third plate

16 s=tеna bhavaмtti dattах || yaX=kагcanaм gаг=ca mahиг=ca dadyа-
17 diti [||4*]dуtakam-adhikaraнa[m-а] sva-mukh-аjгayа ca pravarddhamаna-vi-
18 jaya-savvatsаra 3 mаgha 7 ukti(tkи)rннa[м] suvarнна-
19 kаrаcalasiкghеna ||

Seal

1 Prasanna[hр]dayasy=aiva vikkram-аkkrа[м]ta-vidviшaх[1]
2 щrиmatо jayarаjasya щаsana[м] ripuщаsana[м] [||5*]