Epigraphia Indica Vol 09

SR No.: 032563
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: E Hultzsch, Sten Konow
Publisher: Archaeological Survey of India
Publication Year: 1907
Total Pages: 498
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 28 MB

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certainly read on any of the specimens of the British Museum. Bat even if & re-examination shonld prove the readings Soduisa and Suddsa to be correct, this would not invalidate the reading of the present inscription. Everybody familiar with the records of this period knows how often an anusvára is omitted in writing, and that on that account the reading Somdess, even if found once only, carries more weight than the reading Sodisa occarring ten times. In my opinion therefore Sonduisa must be accepted as the general form of the name.
Scarcely less interesting is the designation of the donor. Dowson and Canningham reau gajavaréna, and Bühler, Vienna Or. Journ. Vol. V. p. 177, proposed to alter the unintelligible syllables gaja into raja, daring the reiga.' The new reading gamjavarina shows that ganjarara,
treasurer,' which hitherto Was known only from the Ritjatarasini V, 177 and Kshêmêndra's Ló'caprakcija, was an official title in India already in mach earlier times. As recognised by Benfey, ganjarara is the Persian ganjwar, and the use of this title is a new proof of the strong Parthian influence that made itself felt in Northern India from the time of Asoka to the beginning of the Gupta empiro.
The donor calls himself by his gótra name Sêgrava, which in correct Sanskrit woald be Śaigrava. According to the Gamepitha the Saigrava gótra is referred to by Påşini in II, 4, 67 and IV, 1, 104. I have also no doubt that Professor Kern is right in identifying Saigrara with Pali Siggava, the name of the patriarcha who conferred the upasa padel ordination on the great Tissa Moggaliputta.
No. 34.-PATHARI PILLAR INSCRIPTION OF PARABALA;
[VIKRAMA-) SAMVAT 917. BY THE LATE PROFESSOR F. KIELHORN, C.I.E.; GÖTTINGEN. Pathart in Long, 78° 15' and Lat. 23' 56', is the chief town of the Native State of the same name in the Bhopal Agency of Central India. Its antiquities were first described, in 1818, by Captain J. D. Cunningham, in the Journal As. Soc. Besgal, Vol. XVII, Part I, p. 305 ff. After stating that the locality of which he is treating includes two good-sized reservoirs or lakes, and that the present town of Pathârî and the smaller lake are distinguished by a single pillar and & solitary temple, Captain Cunningham on page 310 proceeds thus:- Near to the western edge of the smaller lake stands the wand or pillar, now called of Bheem Sen. It is composed of a single block abont 36 feet in height and thick. The shaft is equare in section for a height of 8 feet, and it then becomos circular .. .On one side of the square portion of the shaft there is a long inscription, much obliterated, and of which I failed to make even a tolerable impression.'
The pillar and its inscription were again noticed in 1880, by General Sir A. Cunningham, in his Archæol. Survey of India, Vol. X, p. 70, thus:-'Inside the town, on the top of the slope, there is a tall monolith with a bell-shapod capital. The shaft is circular, rising from a base 8 feet
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? In the Journ. Roy.As. 800. 1903, p. 289 1., Professor Rapson has described a coin that shows a general similarity to those of Sondiss. With the exception of the first three akalaras the inscription is not quite certain. Professor Rapeon reads: brahmana[na go(?)da ra(?)-tha(?). wa). Would it be too bold to conjecture that the brahmana mentioned here may have some connection with the brahmana Saigrava, the gangavara of Sondå 18, and that the reading must be altered accordingly?
• Geschiedenis van het Buddhisme in Indië, Vol. II. p. 366. • See Dipau. V, 57, 69, etc. • [The proofs of this and all subsequent papers by the late Professor Kielborn have been read by me.-S. K.] • Constablo's and Atlas of India Plate 27 Du.