90 A. F. E. Hoernle— Inscribed Seal of Kumdra Gupta II. [No. 2, 



Translation.* 



(Lines 1 and 2.)— The son of the Maharajadhiraja, the glorious 

 Samudra-Gupta, who was the exterminator of all kings ; who had no 

 antagonist (of equal power) in the world ; who was the son of the son's 

 son of the Maharaja the illustrious Gupta ; who was the son's son of the 

 Maharaja, the illustrious Ghototkacha ; (and) who was the son of the 

 Maharajadhiraja, the glorious Chandragupta (I.), (and) the daughter's 

 son of Lichchhavi, begotten on the Mahadevi KtJMARADGvf, 



(Line 3.)— (was) the mos t devout worshipper of the Divine One, 

 the Maharajadhiraja, the glorious Chandragupta (II.), who was accepted 

 by him (i. e., Samudragupta) j who was begotten on the Mahadevi 

 Dattadevi ; and who was himself without an antagonist (of equal 

 power), t . 



(Line 4.)— His son (was) the Maharajadhiraja, the glorious Kumara- 

 gupta (!.)» who meditated on his feet, (and) who was begotten on the 

 Mahadevi Dhrcvadevi. 



(Line 5.)— His son (was) the Maharajadhiraja, the glorious Pura- 

 gupta, who meditated on his feet, (and) who was begotten on the 

 Mahadevi AnantadevL 



(Line 6.) — His son (was) the Maharajadhiraja, the glorious Nara- 

 Simhagupta, who meditated on his feet, (and) who was begotten on the 

 Mahadevi S'lifvATSADEVi. 



(Lines 7 and 8.)— His son (was) the most devout worshipper of the 

 Divine One, the Maharajadhiraja, the glorious Kumaragupta (IL)» wll o 

 meditated on his feet, (and) who was begotten on the Mahadevi S'ri- 



MATfDEVf. 



All the names of the kings are quite legible on the original seal : 

 quite sufficiently so, to identify them satisfactorily.!: Of the names of 

 the two last queens, Srivatsa and Srimati, the two first syllables respec- 

 tively (S'riva and Snma) are legible ; but the terminal ones (tsa and U) 

 can only be faintly seen. 



Before discussing the information of this record, some of its techni- 



* I follo-w Mr. Fleet's translation (Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum, Vol. Ill, p. 

 54) as far as it goes. 



f Or, " who was himself an antagonist (of equal power to all his enemies)," if wo 

 read svayam cha pratirathah ; see below. 



J The photographic plate unfortunately is not quite as distinct, as one would 

 wish. The original plate requires to be held in various lights, and to be examined 

 with a large magnifying glass ; bat with these helps there is really not much difficulty 

 in reading the whole of the record, with the exception of those small and unimportant 

 portions (in straight brackets) that are entirely rubbed away (apparently during the 

 process of cleaning the plate.) 



