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130 Alam MOS EPIGRABRIS INDICA ISUHOLAYA [VOL. XVIII
... at sonde length ft According to the Mahabharatay. this tribe lived in the westera toof Indin. Dr. Las consider the Siboi, one of the tribes.subaned by Alexander, the Great, to be identical with the Sibía of the ancient Indian literature and Mr. Smith in his Early History of India "locates them in the Doab of the Hydagpes and Hydratin The inscription referred to above appears to show that the mound at Sharkoty where the record bas been found marks the site of Sibipura which Dr. Vogel believes to have been the capital of the Sibis. It thus becomes evident that the Sibis, were at one time masters of the greater part of Northern India. 201 The name of the king who had this inscription installed is lost in the lower obliterated portion of the record, and we know nothing about him beyond the fact, as we gather from versen 1-5, that though. Buddhist by faith, he revered, along with the Buddha and Tarā, the Brahmaniçal god śiva. This is in keeping with the state of the society, during the period to which the inscription belongs and we are aware of Bali lagēna, king of Bengal, who in the beginning the bin migawes, a Buddhist, but turned Spina, A hir later life. At the Buddhist trine of Sarnath.and pther, ancient sites, Brahmanical images have been found side by side with Buddhistiques, in the shrings of the late, medieval period. Further proof of the reconciliation of Hinduism and Buddhism during this perioda sorded by certain. Mon inscription Burme L'ecording the consentation and dedication 20f69 great regions building pr Palace" the cere; monial lasted a number of days and Brahman astrologers as well as Buddhist monks took part in it. This process of harmonising the two faiths must, however, have begun much earlier syphe attainaalhandda of Harlsha, to which reference been made above represents an Windovtea atent in the direction, for dowell not find in 4 the Bodhisattva Jimatavahana worshipping the Brakmanical gods and father Jimitakda leading the life of an agnihotrin after his retiremenit?
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$1 1 be remembered that Mr. A. C. L. Carlleyle resa ti burgund on wamo BudaXdyha namo Buddhaya bhiksbunēti Professor) Klelborn has shown that what Mr. Carileyle and ad Shikshumë is really yafutin which commencer vervele. Ho hiphself read the first Buddhaya & Rudrága A elose examination of the passage on: the original stone leaves no doubt, howeyer, that it is really ruddhaya, i.e., who has subjected himself. The sub, joined consonant of the second syllable. of the word has decidedly & closed loop like the ddha of Buddhāya (1.1) acd is distinct from dra in chandrama (1. 8), narēndra (1. 19) and haiglad i h (1.27) (The word must be Iudraya as indicated by the first 2 verses in prate of Sansek ]
H ere, we wight restore the words tad pahontana.
The syllable sam is written below the line.
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