Epigraphia Indica Vol 07

SR No.: 032561
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: E Hultzsch
Publisher: Archaeological Survey of India
Publication Year: 1998
Total Pages: 522
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 23 MB

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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA.
[VOL. VII.
cannot say that I discover any remains of it.- (3) CTI. and AS. dha[bha]yata. I recognise the outline of a bh rather than of a dh, and everybody agrees that bla is the necessary reading.(4) CTI. and AS. lena.-- (5) CTI. and As. bhagine . . . . savikana.-(6) CTI. and AS... . .ghasu kale.-(7) CT I. and AS... .. cha deyadhana.-- (8) CTI. and AS. . . . . . parivireņu supaya
. . . - (9) CTI, and AS. Onili Usabhde . . . . . .
It will be seen that the new fac-simile, far from completing the fragmentary text of this epigraph, only shows the more advanced deterioration of the stone. Consequently, still less than my predecessors am 1 able to offer even an approximate trauslation. It is clear that the inscription commemorated the donation of a cistern, made, it seems, by nuns, and that the date referred to the winter of the 5th year of some sovereign. But it is not at all certain whether the term stvika is applied to the female donor or to one of the nuns, and still less whether it has the meaning ·lay-worshipper,' as in the terminology of the Jainas.
No. 22, Plate iv. (K. 17). One furlong south of the chaitya cave. On the front wall of a rihra, left of entrance, top.
TEXT, Sidham (1) pavaötasa (2) Budharakhitasa deyadham
(3)
REMARKS (1) CT-I. and AS. sidhu.-- (2) CTI. and AS. pavaitasa.-(3) CTI. deyadhama; AS, deyadhaman. The truth is that the end of the line is indistinct, with the exception of the upper portion of the m.
TRANSLATION. "Success! The pious gift of the ascetic Budharakhita."
I cannot explain the transcription pavailasa otherwise than as a mistake. This Budharakhita is probably the saine as the person mentioned in No. 20.
No. 8.- DEVULAPALLI PLATES OF IMMADI-XRISIMHA;
SAKA-SAMVAT 1427.
Br J. RAMAYTA, BA, B.L. As noticed in Mr. Sewell's Lists of Antiquities, Vol. I. p. 134, these plates are preserved at Dévulapalli in the Vayalpåợu tâluka of the Cuddapah district. At my request Mr. A. Krishnasvami Nayudu, B.A., Acting Tahsildar of Vayalpadu, obtained a loan of the original plates and forwarded them to Dr. Hultzsch, who has kindly furnished me with a set of ink-impressions, from which I edit the inscription.
Dr. Hultzsch has supplied the following information regarding the original plates :-" Three copper-plates with rounded tops; 1l' in height and about 6" in breadth ; strung on a ring which is not soldered and which measures 4' in diameter and in thickness. On the ring is soldere a rectangular seal which measures 13" by 1" and bears, in relief on a countersunk surface, a standing boar which faces the proper left. In front of the boar is a dagger, and above the boar the sun and a crescent."