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WESTERN INFLUENCE ON THE MYSORE EDICTS OF ASOKA 23
pi cu kumāle etāye va athāye nikhāmayisa .... hedisameva vagan *But from Ujjayini also the prince (governor) will send out for the same purpose .... a person (vagam) of the same description.' The corresponding Jaugada version is unfortunately defaced. But in the first separate edict, section L, in Jaugada we read - tata hoti akasmā ti tena badhanartika anye ca vage bahuke vedayati 'In this case (an order) cancelling the imprisonment is (obtained) by him accidentally, while many other people (vage) (continue to suffer). Here in the corresponding section K of the Dhauli version, however, we have jane.61 This correspondence between jana and varga which pertains to vocabulary is an important piece of evidence to show that the two separate edicts were issued from the northwest.
61. HULTZSCH has already drawn attention to these substitutions (p. 40, f.n. 2), but without noticing that vagra or vaga is the north-western substitution for the eastern jana, which reappears as a borrowed word in the separate edicts.
Madhu Vidyā/303
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