File:A Brahmi inscribed wall at Ajanta Caves.jpg

English: Ajanta Caves after monsoon, Buddhist art work, Maharashtra India. A Sanskrit inscription in Brahmi. Description from source with creative commons license:

First (probably) reported in passing in Prinsep 1826:556-561, with partial eye copy (Plate 27 No. 10). First edited (with eye copy, transcript and translation) in BhauDaji 1863a:59-61. Re-edited by Bhagwanlal Indraji in Burgess Indraji_1881:73-76; by Bühler in Burgess 1883:128-132 with a facsimile (Plate 56) made by Indraji and "considerably worked up by hand" (according to Mirashi 1963:120); by Mirashi with a new rubbing in Mirashi 1949 and Mirashi 1963. Discussed in Shastri 1997:46-49.

line 1?(?dru)mā(śa)ni(ṃ) praṇamyavidyātrayapāraga(ṃ)muniM vihāradāturvyavadātakarmmaṇo guṇābhidhānopanayaxkariṣyate|| line 2?(?la)ne(na) labdhātmabhāvasyanarādhipasya dhṛtātapatrasyababhūvaputras sitātapatrodhṛtarāṣṭrasaṃjñaḥ(||) line 3(s)yarājño harisāmbomburuhendukāntavaktraḥ nṛpatestanayobabhūvatasy(ā)py amalaśrī(ḥ)kṣitipālaśaurisāmba(ḥ||) line 4(?te)(na) pṛthukīrttirdyutimānupendraguptaḥ samabhūda(va)(?ra)ssutothatasya kṣitipaxkācaitiprakāśanāmā(||) line 5(?dyu)(ti)kīrttinyasanāyabhikṣudāsaḥ pratithobhuvinīladāsanāmā nṛpatistasyasutonarādhipasya|| line 6(?raiḥ) prathitaxkācaitipradīptakīrttiḥ nṛpaterathatasyakṛṣṇadāsaḥ kulavaṃśadyutivarddhanobabhūva|| line 7(s) tanayācandrakarāvadātaveṣā abhavatparipūrṇṇacandravaktrā vinayācāravibhūṣaṇā(?su)candrā|| line 8(?rtthi-sthalo)d+yotakarīmavāpa tasyāñcatasyāmburuhāyatākṣāv uttaptacāmīkarakāntar(ū)pau(||) line 9........... mnasāmbapratimaukumārau| (dharā)dhipā(kh)y(ā)ṃpratham(o)(ba)bhāra dadhredvitīyo(ra)visāmbasaṃjñāM(||) line 10(?nīyocchri)(t)amaśmakādi(bhiḥ) (?kṛ)(tārttha-satvā)(?v)abhibhūyabhūyasā rarājatuścandradivākarāviva|| line 11(ha nibaddha)(?mānayo)(ḥ) vivṛddhasauhārdda(?yaśa)fpratānayos sadānukūlyenasukhaṃvijahr(uṣ)oḥ(||) line 12(?amāna)vairapyanivāryyaśāsanaḥ purākṛtodbhāvitabhīmavikramaḥ kanīyasiprā(kh)ya(d an)i(t)yatāśani(M)|| line 13(va)dhairyyā(d)i(?va kā)(ya-dh)ī(ru)jaḥ a(n)i(t)yasaṃjñāsacivastatafparaṃ vyavīvṛdhatpuṇyamahāmahīruhaM|| line 14(?nujā)tatoṣ(āN) bhūyaśśrutatyāgadayāpramoda maitrīkṣamāvīryyadhiyassiṣeve|| line 15(na)rendrāN praśastavṛttānsuviśuddhavṛtto vṛttenasa(?bh)y(ān)u(c)itonucakre|| line 16cakāra anyārtthikasyārtthijanastathaiva kīrtti(ṃ)kṛtārtthaḥprathayāmbabhūva|| line 17(?yā)(n bha)(?ya)(v)iplutākṣāN amūmucadvittavisarggaśaktyā putrā(n)iveṣṭānkaruṇābhimṛṣṭaḥ|| line 18(?pra)(ṇaye)naputravaT anūcivāṃsopihiyasyahṛdgatāṃ vida(nṛva)dhyāśa(ya)śuddhisampadaM|| line 19karāṇisadyaḥ sarvvajñabhāvapraṇidhānasiddhi(ḥ) satyābhidhānā(bh)ibhavādapeyuḥ|| line 20mbhāraca(yādh)iyogaḥ yaśoṃ(śu)bhiścandramarīciśubhrair jjagatsamagra(ṃ)samalañcakāra|||| line 21(vada)nāravindacandre paripālayatikṣitīndracandre hariṣeṇehitakāriṇiprajānāM|| line 22(n a)tyadbhutapuṇyarāśiḥ (cakre)bhuva+stūpavihārabhūṣāṃ dānodayaiścārtthi(ja)napramodaM(||) line 23nākulanādavadbhiḥ ni(?tyaṃ)vi(tā)nā(rtha-dhi)(?yā)(va)hadbhir a(m)bh(o)dha(?rai)śśrīma(t)isahyapāde|||| line 24(g)āmbhīryyaguṇairupetaM niveśitāntarmunirājacaityam ekāśmakaṃmaṇḍaparatnametaT||| line 25vipulāṃvisṛjya| acīkara(c cai)tya(vimā)nakalpam alpātmabhiḥkalpanayāpyaśakyaM|| line 26nayanābhirāmaM nyavīviśatsvādulaghuprasanna śītaprakāmāmbumahānidhānaM|||||| line 27nnetramanobhirāmāM anyā(ṃ)gadeśesyadiśipratīcyām acīkaradgandhakuṭīmudārāM|||| line 28(d-dhi)tāyodyatasarvvakarmmaṇa(ḥ) munīndra(?v)ā(?s)apraṇidhānasiddhaye bhavantvabhīṣṭābhuvisarvvasa{-||}mpadaḥ|| line 29(sa)praṇayenamaṇḍapa(ḥ) karotutāvatkuśalodayaṃsatāṃ (n/v)ihantiyāvadraviraṃśubhistamaḥ||