Epigraphia Indica Vol 19

Author(s): Hirananda Shastri
Publisher: Archaeological Survey of India

Page 91

EPIGRAPHIA INDICA.
[VOL. XIX
No. I.-Buddha image inscription of the year 22. This inscription, which consists of two lines, is engraved on the lower rim of the base of # headless image of Buddha (height 2' 1"; w. 1'61') which was found in the city of Mathura and acquired for the Museum in 1918. The first line is in a good state of preservation but only one or two aksharas have survived in the second.
TEXT. 1. On Siddham Sa[th*] 20 2 gri 2 di 30 asyām pārvvāyām Prāvārika-vihārē Buddha-pratimă pratisht(th)āpitā 2. . .
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samdhi] . . . . . .
TRANSLATION. "Om Success ! On the 30th day of the 2nd [month) of summer, in the year 22, on this occasion as specified, (this) image of Buddha was installed in the Prāvārika-vihāra
No. II.-Bodhisattva image inscription of the year 39.
TEXT. 1. [Mahārājasa dē*]vaputrasa Huv[i]shkasya sama 309 va 3 di 5 étasyarh purvayam bhikhuniyē Pusahathiniyē sa
2. bhikhuņiye Budhadāvāyā Bodhisatvo pratithāpito sahā mātāpitihi sarva-satvahita-sukha[yē*]
TRANSLATION. " (In the reign) of the Mahārāja, the Dāvaputra, Huvishka, on the 5th day of the 3rd [month] of the rainy season in the year 39, on this date as specified above, (this) Bodhisattva was set up by a nun named Pusahathini, together with the nun Budhadeve, together with (her) parents, for the welfare and happiness of all sentient beings."
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No. III.-Bodhisattva image inscription.'
TEXT, 1. Mahārājāsa Dāva putrasa) . . .. s a .hő.. . di 10 9 [asyām) purvāyām s[a]rthavahasa bha
2. vasa ... [ni]sa kuțubiniyo Dha(nya]bhavayo (dānam Bodhisa]cho [yu). d-attra P[u]-nya[m] ta[d-bhavatu]
TRANSLATION. “On the 19th day of the ... month of the cold weather in the ... year of the reign of the Mahārāja, the Dēvaputra ...: . this Bodhisattva is the gift of Dhalnya]bhavā, the wife of ...., the caravan merchant. Whatever merit there is in it, may it be . . . . . . . .."
The image in question is described in the 4. S. R. for the year 1916-17, Pt. I, p. 13, and illustrated in Pl. VII, fig. C. See also the Annual Progress Report of the Superintendent, Archcological Surrey, Hindu and Buddhist Monuments, Northern Circle, for the year ending 31st March 1917, p. 8.
Ibid. p. 9.