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THE SANCHI INSCRIPTION OF SVAMIN JIVADAMAN.
3. On the tenth day of the dark half of Sravana; on this date for the increase of his welfare and prosperity, for the eternal obtainment (i.e. enjoyment) of heaven, this, for obtaining dharma and fame, for the increase of the sword (in the form) of dharma
., of which the..
water which is accessible to all, at all times,
pure
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5. Sweet to the sight of all created beings, a reservoir of water.
6. (This) auspicious well was caused to be excavated by the virtuous Sridharavarman. (The year) 201
No. 17.-THREE KSHATRAPA INSCRIPTIONS.
BY RAKHALDAS BANERJI AND VISHNU S. SUKTHANKAR.
These three Kshatrapa inscriptions, which are now exhibited in the Watson Museum of Antiquities at Rajkot, have been published before, at different times and different places, but are here re-edited in order to have them properly illustrated and render them easily accessible. A comparison of the originals with the facsimiles of the same inscriptions published in the Bhavnagar Collection of Prakrit and Sanskrit Inscriptions made us feel the special need of placing before scholars reliable facsimiles obtained by purely mechanical means. These, it is hoped, will enable even those scholars who are not in a position to examine the stones personally to reconsider the previous readings, which, in our opinion, are in many respects defective. Our transcripts, which were in the first instance prepared from ink-impressions and squeezes, were subsequently compared with the originals.
I. Gunda Inscription of the time of the Kshatrapa Rudrasimha: the year 103.
The inscription was first edited, with a translation, in 1881, by Georg Bühler in Ind. Ant., Vol. X, pp. 157 f., from an eye-copy and a transcript prepared by Pandit Vallabhacharya Haridatta of Kathiavad and submitted to Bühler by Major Watson for publication. Nine years later Bühler published some corrections in Sitzungsber. Wien. Akad. Wiss., Phil. Hist. Kl., Vol. CXXII, No. XI, p. 46, note 2, which publication was unfortunately not accessible to the writers of this article. The posthumous papers of Bhagvanlai Indraji edited by Rapson in the Jour. Roy. 48. Soc, (1890) contain a short note (pp. 650 f.) on this inscription. In 1895 the text and a translation of this epigraph were republished in the Collection of Prakrit and Sanskrit Inscriptions, Bhavnagar, pp. 21 f., No. 3 and Plate XVII. In 1896 appeared in the Bombay Gazetteer, Vol. I, Part I, p. 42, some corrections proposed by Bhagvanlal Indraji himself in his earlier readings and interpretation; Rapson, in Jour. Roy, As. Soc., 1899, p. 375, also published some fresh corrections. The Catalogue of the Coins of the Andhra Dynasty, etc. (1908), of Rapson includes (p. lxi) a short note on this record, which gives reference to the literature on the sub-ject and briefly summarizes the contents of the inscription. In 1912 Prof. Lüders in his List of Brahmi Inscriptions (Appendix to Epigraphia Indica, Vol. X, No. 963) gave a complete bibliography of the inscription, a reading of the date (it cannot be said whether from the published facsimile or directly from an impression of the stone), and a summary of its contents. And finally, in 1915, Prof. D. R. Bhandarkar published some corrections of previous readings and interpretations in Prog. Rep. Arch. Surv. of India, W. Circle, 1914-15, p. 67.
The inscription was discovered in 1880 by Major Watson in an old unused well at Gundă in the Halar District of North Käthiäväḍ. It was subsequently removed to the temple of Dvarakanatha at Jamnagar, where, apparently, it was kept until its transference to the Watson Museum of Antiquities at Rajkot.
