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The Jaina Antiquary
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first two lines are, however, in a satisfactory good state of pre. servation. - My reading of the inscription is as follows : :
L. I. A Heat gafar gag [fagrigat)........ L. 2. & 171 HAUTFE (@].......... L. 3. 99f(?) ......
The world Sidhair (fagy) has been engraved almost in the beginning of the 2nd line instead of the first After Sid dhamin (fan) there is a numerical symbol for 6. It is not clear whether this symbol stands for the regnal year or for the day, which may have been given at the end of the first line. If we take this symbol ng denoting the regnal saka year, usually found in the Kushana ingcriptions of Mathura, then in that case the time of the installation of the image would come to 84 A. D. But in case the symbol stands for the day, we can not definitely assign the inscription to any particular year. • The purpose of the inscription is clearly the installation of an image of Sumati or Surnatinātha by a lady named Mirra, who was probably the daughter of Somagupta. . -- Sumatinatha is the fifth Jaina Tirthankara and his early images are rarely known. The new inscription is therefore an important record in so far as it refers to the making of an image of this deity early in the Kushāņa period.
III. The third inscription is on a complete pedestal (1'9"x1'4") of a Tirtharikara image. But for the pedestal the image is almost totally broken. The remaining feet however, show that the image was in standing posture.
There is a usual relief on the front face of the pedestal between two pillars, showing worship of a dharmachakra. Two lines of the inscription are above the relief and one is below. Eight letters are inscribed on the rim of the image close to the right foot. The first line of the inscription mentioning the name etc, of the king, during whose reign the image was installed, is very badly preserved. Fortu. nately the numerical symbols denoting the year are preserved in the beginning of the second line. We are thus enabled to date the epigraph precisely. It reads as follows:
L. I. ********...ay (a) FT (F] [FATE) Hotel (757 (HE )........ L.2.. Pout a fafaz faqat salát care contrat lautant pl.,
