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Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
INSCRIPTION OF VADUKHA-VARIKHA
The following inscription, consisting of one line, 'is incised on the right wall of the verandah of the lower story, to the right of the entrance to the righthand side-chamber of the main wing' of the Mañcapuri group of three caves designated Vaikunthapura, Pātālapura and Yamapura by Mr. Fergusson and Rājā Rajendra Lāla Mitra. There is every reason for believing that the inscription was meant to be a record of the excavation and dedication of the third cave of this group by Prince Vadukha or Varikha.
The text is based upon Major Kittoe's facsimile read and reproduced by James Prinsep in JAS3, old series, Vol, VI, P. LVII, Cave No. 7 miscalled Manikpura cave; Rājendra Lāla Mitra's copy of Prinsęp's transcript in his Antiquities of Orissa, Vol. II, p. 16; Alexander Cunningham's eye-copy reproduced in Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum, old series, Vol. I, Pl. XVII, Cave No. 8 miscalled Mānikpura Cave; Bhagwanlal Indraji's eye-copy reproduced in Actes du Sixieme Congres International des Orientalistes, Part III, Sec. II; Lüders' List of Brāhmi Inscriptions in EI, Vol. X, Appendix, No, 1348, Cave called Udayagiri Mañcapuri-gumpbā; Hari Das Dutta's inked impression read and reproduced by R. D Banerji in EI, Vol. XIII, Udayagiri and Khandagiri Cave Inscriptions, Pl. I, No. III ; and, above all, A. E. Caddy's cast preserved in the Indian Museum, Calcutta.
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