Gadhwa (गढ़वा किला, शंकरगढ़ Allahabad district). Gupta period Inscription (Zenodo).

                     

Fleet, John Faithful. Inscriptions of the Early Gupta Kings and Their Successors. Calcutta: Superintendent of Govt. Printing, 1888.

It is impossible to give any connected rendering of the contents of this inscription. We can only note that, in the First Part, we may perhaps have remnants of the name of Kumâragupta in line 1-2; that there is the name of Anantagupta or Anantagupta in line 5, evidently belonging to some private person; and that lines 7 to 12 appear to have recorded certain grants, fixed in dînâras, for the purpose of providing food in a sattra or ‘almshouse’, and also to provide pairs of upper and lower garments. It ends with the usual imprecation against interfering with the continuance of the grant.

The Second Part, again, refers to food in an almshouse, recording something in connection with it at a cost of nineteen gold coins of the kind called suvarṇa. Other details follow, including two karôas or ‘basins or cups’, and one pair [of upper and lower garments]. Then follows apparently a grant of some land, on the south bank of a river. And the inscription winds up, as before, with the usual imprecation against interfering with the grants.

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