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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA.
[Vol. VIII.
REMARK. (1) G. dhamam.
TRANSLATION « Success! This cave, a pious gift of Ramanaka, son of the writer Sivamita."
No. 17, Plate viii. (N. 4). On the back wall of the veranda in Cave No. 12.
TEXT. 1 Velidatapatasa (1) nekamasa Ramanakasa 2 Chhakalopakiyase lenam deyadhammañ chatudi(2)3 sasa bhikhusamghasa niyatitan data cha 4 nens akhayanivi kahapanasata 100 5 samghasa hathe eto Vasavathasa pavaïtasa chivari6 kam d&tavam bårasakań.
REMARKS. (1) G. datao; AS. Velidata, (2) . and AS. chátudio.
TRANSLATION. "Success! This cave, a pious gift of the merchant Ramanaka, son of Velidata, from Chhakalepa, bestowed on the universal Sangha of monks generally; and by the same have been given as a perpetual endowment one-hundred-100- kahapanas in the hands of the Sangha, Out of this a cloth money of twelve kahdpaņas is to be given to the ascetic who keeps the vasen (here)."
Chh&kalepa or Chhagalepa, a village or a town, & region or & clan, has not yet been identified ; on chivarika and the sum of twelve kárshápanas, either as interest for an investment of one-hundred kárshápanas, or as the amount of the chivarika, compare above, No. 12.
No. 18, Plate V. (N. 3). On the back wall of the veranda in Cave No. 17.
TEXT. i Sidham otarahasa Datamitiyakasa (1) Yonakasa Dhammadovaputasa
fdrägnidatase (2) dhammâtman (3) 2 imam (4) leņam pavate Tiramnhumhi khånitam abhamtaram cha lenasa
chetiyagharo podhiyo (5) cha matapi3 taro udisa ima leņa (6) karitan sava-Budha-pujáya châtudisasa
bhikhûsamghasa (7) niyåtita sa4 hs patena Dhammarakhitona.
REMARKS. (1) G. and AS. Dantami,- (2) G. Indragnio; AS. Iado; but the Sanskrit ris per fectly clear.-(3) The stroke which, rising perpendicularly, makes the a look somewhat like, is thinner and certainly accidental.-(4) G. and AS, ima te -(5) G. rodinyo ; AS pondhiyo. (6) AS. lenan.-(7) G. bhikhuo.
