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No. 13.)
INSCRIPTIONS IN UDAYAGIRI AND KHANDAGIRI CAVES.
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TEXT (1) ........ Dobada (2) samananam lēnam
NOTES. (1) The surface of the stone to the left of the first letter was carefully examined with a lons but no traces of letters were found. (2) The first syllable is certainly Do, but the second syllable may as well be ha as på.
TRANSLATION. "The cave of the monks of Dohada ....."
XII.-Inscription in Anantagumpha. This record is incised on the rock outside the veranda of the Anantagumpha. Mr. Chakravartti reads it Dajuchäral but it is really something like a mason's mark. There are three symbole, of which a central one is the Brāhmi letter ja, while the other two may resemble, but are not, letters.
XIII.- Painted inscription in Tatwagumpha No. 1. This inscription was noticed for the first time by the late Mr. J. D. M. Beglar in 1882. who published an eyo copy of it with his report. But unfortunately the eye copy was printed upside down. Mr. Mon Mohan Chakravartti tried to read it from this plate, bat apparently did not succeed. The whole inscription is written or painted on the back wall of the inner chamber of the cave, and on prolonged examination I found that, in addition to a row of letters which I cannot make out, it was a repetition of the Indian alphabet. Some young monk had used the back wall of the cell as a copy book and improved his knowledge of the alphabet by writing on it. The characters belong to the first century B.C. or first century A.D.
TEXT.
........ gha ........... ........................Da ta tha da dha na .................................................... ................ ...na ta ths da dha na ............ .............. sa sha sa
............... na ta tha da dhana pa pha ba bha ....................... sha
sa ha .................. .................. ta tha da dba pa pa pha ba ......... Sasha & ha... .....
............ tha ...............................
XIV.-Inscription of Udyotakesari in the Navamuni Cave. Thore are two inscriptions in the Navamuni cave, both of wbich belong to the same date, about the tenth century A.D. The first inscription was incised in the eighteenth year of the reign of Udyota-kēgari-Dēva, and is to be found on the inner side of the architrave. The inscription was noticed by the late Mr. J. D. M. Beglar, who published it with Cunningham's reading of it. The only other known insoription of Udyotakosari is the, now lost, loog inscription published by Prinsep. Mr. Mon Mohan Chakravartti also tried to read the Navamuni cave inscription. It consists of three lines and has been very clearly incised.
Nofer on the Remains in Dhauli and in the caves of Udayagiri and Khandagiri, Calcutta, 1903, p. 20. ? Arch. Suro. Rep., Vol. XIII, p. 82. Arch. Suru. Rep., Vol. XIII, p. 85, note.
• Jouta, Beng. As. Sve., Vol. Vii, pp. 558 tt.
