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A COMPREHENSIVE HISTORY OF JAINISM
There are two inscriptions bearing the date 22, the first of which records” the dedication by Dharmasomā, the wife of a caravan leader (sarttavāhini) at the request of the vācaka Arya Mātrdina. As we have already noted, this monk is mentioned in an inscription of year 19. A second inscription 100 of the same date records the dedication of an image of Vardhamāna. Its primary interest however lies in its reference to the Petavāmika kula of the Vārana gana. In the list of kulas under Cārana (i.e., Varana) in the Theravali we have the kula called Pīdhammiya. There is little doubt that this is a corrupt form of 'Petavāmika'. The inscription 101 of year 25 records the dedication by Vusu(?), the wife of a dyer (rayaginī), daughter of Nādi, daughter-in-law of Jabhaka, wife of Jayabhata. Two monks are also mentioned, namely Sadhi and his preceptor Arya Balatrata who belonged to the Koliya gaña, Brahmadāsika kula and Ucenāgarī sākhā. The monks Arya Balatrata and his pupil Sadhi are also mentioned in an undated inscription of Mathurā.102
The inscription 103 of year 28 is interesting, for it mentions, according to Fleet, 104 Lüders,105 and Vogel, 106 the king Vāsiska, '07 the successor of Kaņişka. There are two inscriptions of year 29. In the first inscription 108 the name of the reigning king is given but it cannot be properly deciphered, but he was surely Huviška,109 the successor of Vāsiska. It records the dedication of an image of Vardhamana by a married lady (kutumbini) Bodhinadi, daughter of Grahahathi at the request of Gahapravika(?), pupil of Arya Datta, a ganin belonging to the Vāraņa gaña and Pușyamitriya kula. The kula mentioned is Pūsamitti under Cārana (i.e., Vārana) in the Theravali. Another inscription of the same date'' refers to mahārāja devaputra Huksa, i.e., Huviska. It also yields the name of a monk called Nagadata (Nāgadatta).
V.S. Agrawala in 1937 drew our attention to a Jaina inscription bearing the date of year 30;" but beyond the date there is nothing more in it. The inscription"2 of year 31 refers to the dedication by Grahaśrī, daughter of Buddhi and wife of Devila. It refers to a monk called Godāsa who belonged to the Koliya gana, Sthāniya kula, and Veri sākhā. The interest of the inscriptions of year 32 lies in its reference to an unnamed perfumer (gandhika) and monk Nandika of to the Koliya gaña, Sthāniya kula, and Veri sākhā. More interesting is the inscription" of year 35 that records the dedication of an image of Vardhamāna by the perfumer (gandhika) Kumārabhati, son of Kumāramitā, the sišini (female pupil) of Arya Baladina who
