Epigraphia Indica Vol 33

SR No.: 032587
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: D C Sircar
Publisher: Archaeological Survey of India
Publication Year: 1959
Total Pages: 514
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 29 MB

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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA
[VOL. XXXIII This reminds us of the numerous scenes from the Jātakas on the Barhut sculptures often bearing inscriptions mentioning the names of particular Jätakas. There is actually another Barhut inscription reading Hansa-jätaka. Among the Jätakas mentioned in the Barhut inscriptions, we have Maghadeviga-jataka, Isimigo-jataka, . . . wigajataka, Secha-jatakan, Nāga-jätaka. Sujatogahuto-jätaka, Latuvā-jätaka, Vidalajataraluku fa-jätaka, Uda-jätaka, Kimnara-jātaka, Miga-jätaka, Bhisaharaniya-jātaka, Chhadartiya-jätaka, Isisiṁgiya-jātaka, Vitura punakiya-jātaka, Yavamajhakiya-jātaka and Muga pakiya-jätaka. It may be pointed out that the names of the Jätakas as quoted in these inscriptions are in some cases found in different forms in the Jātaka collections.
No. 7
The coping stone bearing this inscription has the number Ac/2910. The record is in two parts. The height of individual aksharas in this epigraph is similar to that of the letters in No. 6. The first part of the inscription reads Gajā-jätaka Sasoo and the second jätake which however, seems to be followed by traces of the letters saso. The two parts jointly mention the Gaja jätaka and the Sasa-jätaka Although the Sasa-jätakat is well known, it is difficult to identify the Gaja-jätaka. Among the Jätakas, we have stories in which both the gaja (i.e. elephant) and the saía (i.e. rabbit) are known to have some part to play.
1 Barua and Sinha, op. cit., p. 81; Ind. A., Vol. XXI, p. 239, No. 158.
* See Ibid., pp. 78, 80-81, 83, 85, 87-89, 91.94, 97; Lüders' List, Nos. 691 ; 694-05, 698, 700-01,703-04, 706, 724, 730, 769, 755-86, 802, 807, 810, 825, 897. Cf. Ind. Ant., Vol. XXI, p. 233, No. 72; p. 239, No. 155. For another Jätaka, see ibid., p. 239, No. 157.
.S. C. Kala, op. cit., pp. 32-33, No. 7. See Jätaks No. 316. Cf., e.g., Jätaka No. 322 (Daddabha-jalaka).