page_title: Gwalior inscription of Mihirakula
section_title: Inscription
hierarchical_section_title: Gwalior inscription of Mihirakula / Inscription
caption_attribution_description: English: Mihirakula in the Gwalior inscription
context_page_description: The Gwalior Inscription of Mihirakula is a Sanskrit inscription recording the construction of a Surya temple from stone, by Matricheta. It was found in 1861 by Alexander Cunningham and published in 1861. Several translations of it have been published thereafter. It is damaged, its script is the northern class of ancient Gupta script and the entire composition is in poetic verse.
  It is notable for mentioning a Sun temple in the first part of the sixth century CE, and the rule of Hūṇa king Mihirakula.
context_section_description: Siddham has published the critically edited version of the inscription as:
  1. [*][*ja](ya)ti jaladavāladhvāntam utsārayan svaiḥkiraṇanivahajālair vyoma vidyotayadbhiḥu[*daya-gi](r)[*i]taṭāgra[*ṃ] maṇḍaya{+n} yas tura(ṃ)gaiḥcakitagamanakhedabhrāntacaṃcatsaṭāntaiḥ|udayag[*i](r)[*i]
  
  2. [⏑--](gra)stacakro rttiharttābhuvanabhavanadīpaḥ śarvvarīnāśahetuḥtapitakanakavarṇṇair aṃśubhif paṃkajān(ā)mabhinavaramaṇīyaṃ yo (vi)dhatte sa vo vyāT|śrītora(m)[āṇa i]ti yaḥ prathito 
  
  3. [*?bhū-ca](?kra)paḥ prabhūtaguṇaḥsatyapradānaśauryād yena mahī nyāyata(śā)stātasyoditakulakīrtteḥ putro tulavikramaḥ patiḥ pṛthvyāḥmihirakuleti khyāto bhaṅgo yaḥ paśupati(m a)[#3#]
  
  4. [*tasmin rā]jani śāsati pṛthvīṃ pṛthuvimalalocane rttihareabhivarddhamānarājye paṃcadaśābde nṛpavṛṣasya|śaśiraśmihāsavikasitakumudotpalagandhaśītalāmodekārttikamāse prāpta gagana
  
  5. [*?patau][*ni]rmmale bhāti|dvijagaṇamukhyair abhisaṃstute ca puṇyāhanādaghoṣeṇatithinakṣatramuhūrtte saṃprāpte supraśastad(i)ne|mātṛtulasya tu pautraḥ putraś ca tathaiva mātṛdāsasyanāmnā ca mātṛcetaḥ parvva-
  
  6. [*ta][-⏑][*?pu](ra)vās(t)av(y)aḥnānādhātuvicitre gopāhvayanāmni bhūdhare ramyekāritavān śailamayaṃ bhānoḥ prāsādavaramukhyaM|puṇyābhivṛddhihetor mmātāpitros tathātmanaś caivavasatā ca girivare smi rājñaḥ 
  
  7. [...](?pā)denaye kārayanti bhānoś candrāṃśusamaprabhaṃ gṛhapravaraṃteṣāṃ vāsaḥ svargge yāvatkalpakṣayo bhavati||bhaktyā raver vviracitaṃ saddharmmakhyāpanaṃ sukīrttimayaṃnāmnā ca keśaveti prathitena ca{-|}
  
  8. [...](?di)tyena||yāvaccharvvajaṭākalāpagahane vidyotate candramādivyastrīcaraṇair vvibhūṣitataṭo yāvac ca merur nagaḥyāvac corasi nīlanīradanibhe viṣṇur vvibharty ujvalāṃśrīṃ{-s} tāvad girimūrdhni tiṣṭhati
  
  9. [*?śilā-prā]sādamukhyo rame||
caption: The name "Mihirakula" (Gupta script: Gupta allahabad mi.jpgGupta ashoka hi.jpgGupta allahabad r.svgGupta allahabad ku.jpgGupta allahabad l.svg, Mi-hi-ra-ku-la) in line 3 of the Gwalior inscription.
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