Indian Epigraphical Glossary c6.5652

c6.5652

siddham (EI 30; CII 3), literally, ‘success has been attained’; an invocation found in early inscriptions at the commencement of the text; used in the sense of siddhir=astu, ‘let there be success’; sometimes confused with the praṇava; generally indicated in later records by a symbol having several varieties; sometimes indicated by the letter cha. Cf. siddhi