Report On Elura Cave Temples and Bramhanical and Jaina Caves in Western India

SR No.: 011091
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Jas Burgess
Publisher: Trubner and Company London
Publication Year: 1883
Total Pages: 209
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 14 MB

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IRILEXICAL SURVEY OF WESTERN INDIA
in honour of thuir deceased parents . . . . . . and, after sccuring it most excellent share (w the merit) for their wives, sons, daughters, stepbrother, the crowal of their sister's sons. and the multitude of their blooul relations, also for the well-being and happiness of all sentient creatures. Au . . . . an ascetic, the There, the reverend Achala, the reverend Ghula, the reverend Vijayamitra, the reverend Budhika, the reverend Dharmapala and the lay worshipper, the merchant Aparenuka, the son of Ananda, have completed (this) new (1) ... here. (The work has been executed by the reverend Bodbika, the pupil of the teacher (und) There, the reverend Seula, (who acted as) overscer, together with the stonemasons ........... and with the polisher Skandaruki (Khadaraki)."
Regarding the state of the inscription and the causes of its mutilation, see Dr. West, loc. cit. The restoration [Bhalaya niyancım (1.9) is supported by No. 37, (West) 1. 2. The wording of the latter inscription must be compared for the next phrases of our inscription (1. 10-15). At the end of line 13 mitu or bandhu may also be thought of. It is difficult to offer a plausible conjecture for the restoration of the end of line 15. I think of war-kumari, which must have been followed by the name of the parajito, the last syllable of whose name ka (read ko) is preserved in l. 16. It seems to me that the Kanheri Chaitya was begun by the merchants Gajasena, Gajamita, &c., and finished by the persons named in 1. 15-19. The name anailu (1. 18) may be restored according to No. 15 (West, 11-1. 3, 4), where the names of Aparenuka's relatives are given in full. For the active meaning of sumipita" have completed, compare patitlâpita" has erected” in the Jaygayyapetta inscriptions (Inl. Ant., vol. xi, p. 256). Seuila is a curious name, but may stand for Saivalu. Ll. 22, 23 contain several difficult words which apparently denote various artisans. The modern Gujarati kulije, "bricklayer," may be compared with kuachichaka.
(Weats 16.5) No. 5, on the left-hand wate-post of the Chaitya cave (No. III.)
1. .......... khabhálakaresu adha....... aka .]ch[e]tiasa bha
..... lakira-a . [ra]vayitâna ya 4 .. akhaya niri (dalta Surakibâre la 5. ... [ti]ni 3 Kiliane Ilalikavihåre cheti6. ... muthana-ila ovarakini Patithane viha 7. . . tiupasadari va chetinghara ovaraka terasa & sa-aklavaniviki [R]ajatalika-Pathanapathe 9.. sana chulika . ya kuți kodhi cha chonità sarla10. sevajuva (vihre sagharamo sa-akharaniviko k[a] 11. rijito puna tha deyadhamâni cha ananipi [käriltäni [1]
This inscription appears to record, besides a benefaction at Kanheri, various meritorious gifts which the donor bestowed at other places on the Bauddha monks. The fragments permit us to recognise the following details :--1. Some addition seems to have been made to the Chaitya at Kanleri (1.2). 2. A perpetual endowment, the purpose and nature of which have been lost, was given (1. 3). 3. In the Zilla of Súpårå (Sopârakâhâre) three (possibly cells) were added to some building (1. 4, 5). 4. In the Ambálikâvihara situatul at Kalyana (Kalliene in the Konkan), a Chaitya, a hall of reception (upathanasála) and cells for the monks (oraraka) were built (1. 5, 6). 5. At Paithân (Patithâne) a Chaityagrihu and thirteen cells for the monks (oruraki terasa) together with a perpetual endowment (l-ahhayiriki) were given (1. 6, 8). 6. In the pargana or tåluka of Paithân,