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Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
Shri Mahavir Jain Aradhana Kendra
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INSCRIPTION OF NĀKIYA
The following "record is incised,” says Mr. R. D. Banerji, “over one of the entrances to the inner chamber of the Jambesvara Cave (No. 16 of the plan published in the Bengal District Gazetteer, Puri). The characters of the inscription are of the same age as those used in the Mañcapuri inscriptions." The cave itself is one of the excavations on the Udayagiri bill.
The text is based upon Major Kittoe's facsimile read and reproduced by James Prinsep in J A S B, old series, Vol. VI, Pl. LVII, Cave No. 4, termed a nameless cave ; Alexander Cunningham's hand-copy reproduced in Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum, old series, Vol. I, Pl. XVII, Cave No, 5, termed a nameless cave; Lüders' List of Brāhmi Inscriptions in EI, Vol. X, Appendix, No. 1352 ; and Hari Das Dutta's inked impression read and reproduced by R. D. Banerji in EI, Vol. XIII, Udayagiri and Khandagiri Inscriptions, Pl. II, No. 8, Cave called Jambeśvara ; and, above all, A. E. Caddy's cast preserved in the Indian Museum, Calcutta.
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