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TWO MORE INSCRIPTIONS OF WESTERN KSHATRAPAS
Rasesh Jamindar
Under review are two more inscriptions belonging to the Western Kshatrapa dynasty. Of these one was discovered from Vāndha, while the findspot of the other is not known but is preserved in the office of the Superintending Archaeologist of the Western Circle of the Department of Archacology, Gujarat State, Vāndha Pillar-inscription of the time of Radrasitaba
Presently preserved in Kachchh Museum, Bhuj, this fragmentary pillar-inscription was found from Vandha. Täluka Mändvi. District Kachchh.
So far unpublished, this mutilated stone-pillar inscription consists of six lines. Written in Brāhmi script, the language of the record is Sanskrit and the whole epigraph is in prose*
The inscription has suffered from corrosin at several places and therefore some important details are missing regard ing the names both of issuer as well as dead. Gotra of the donee is also difficult to make out. The incision of the racord seems very shallow and therefore many letters are being damaged entirely while others have become illegible. The longth and breadth of the characters of this epigraph are shorter than those of the Āndhau inscription of the same king. The letter Jño in the first line is very distinct and bold. The three
1 See figure No. 1. 2 The author has been kindly supplied with a photograph of the inscrip
tion and also extended co-operation by Shri M. H. Raval, the then curator of the museum, when the author visited Bbuj in 1962. The
author 18 grateful to him. 3 Seo Sambodhi, Vol. 3, no. 2-3, pp. 448, 1974
