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JAINA INSCRIPTIONS FROM MATHURA.
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TRANSLATION. ........ In the first month of the rainy season, on the thirtieth day, at that time (or, on that festival)......
No. XXVI. दासम्म पुची चीरिता दत्ति: [0]
TRANSLATION. Chiri, the son of Dasa; his gift.
No. XXVII. L. 1. (AfOTAT) TATT[] ufarurfuerpo 2. [--- Siforment - ----- Trial)" --
TRANSLATION. An image of Vadhamana (Vardhamána) has been set up ......... out of the Thaniya (Sthaniya) ..........
XLIV.-FURTHER JAINA INSCRIPTIONS FROM MATHURA.
BY G. BUHLER, PH.D., LL.D., C.I.E. Impressions of the following seven inscriptions were forwarded by Dr. A. Führer. The first three among them are Sir A. Cunningham's Nos. 6, 7 and 10, in the collection of the third volume of his Archeological Survey Reports, while the remaining four were found by Dr. Burgess and by Dr. Führer during the excavations undertaken at the Kankalt Ma in 1888 and in January and February 1890.
The re-edition of Sir A. Cunningham's inscriptions yields at least the confirmation of a number of conjectural emendations which I proposed in the Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde d. Morgenlandes, vol. I, p. 170ff., and permits us to make some corrections. Among the latter, the most important is the removal of the reading bhattito in No. IB, 1.1, to which Sir A. Cunningham's facsimile pointed, and the substitution of ..gato, .e. sambhogdto, which all the other inscriptions offer after Sirikdto.
The new inscriptions confirm the readings of the names Varanagana (No. XXX), Arya-Battiyakula and Vajandgart bókhd (No. XXXIV) and of a number of names of ascetics and laymen, found in the preceding series. With respect to the Sirika sambhoga it deserves to be noted that No. XXXIV offers the varia lectio- Aryya-Sirikiya, and thus makes it probable that its name means "founded by the Arya-Srl" or the venerable Srl, which latter seems to be an abbreviation of a longer name, made bhimavat.
In addition to these interesting contributions to the bistory of the Jaina sect, some valuable historical information may be extracted from No. XXXIII, which records a gift
* Inciood on the base of a small standing Jina, 8 inches by 10 inchen, found near the first temple. * Incised on the base of seated Jins, 8 feet 4 inches by 1 foot 7 inches, found near the first temple.
The third syllable in doubtful.
• Only the upper portions of the letters of line 8 bave been preserved, and they are, with the exception of a', all very indistinct and mostly doubtful.
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