Epigraphia Indica Vol 21

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

Page 80

No. 11.] ADDITIONAL PRAKRIT INSCRIPTIONS FROM NAGARJUNIKONDA.
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yēshā[m*)
cha dēvaputro
priyaḥ
těshām api
prithivivē
punya[m*)
bhavatu
akshaya-nivi.
L. 10 Shāhisya Huvishkasya'
punya[m*] L. 11 bhavatu sarvāyi: cha
dinn[ā] L. 12. .......... [r]āka-śrēņ[i]yē L. 13. [yē cha*] purāņa-sata
500
50
Samitakara-śrēņi
purāņa-sata 500 50.
TRANSLATION. Success. In the year 28, on the first day of Gorpiaios, this eastern ball of merit was given & perpetual endowment by the Kanasarukamäna-scion, the lord of Kharăsalēra, the lord of Vakana. From what is cleared off month for month from the interest therefrom hundred Brāhmaṇas should be served in the open hall, and day for day, having kept it at the entrance to the hall, on the same day three ādhaka groats, one prastha salt, one prastha saku, three ghataka and five mallaka of green-vegetable bundles, this should be given for the sake of destitute people, hungry and thirsty. And what merit is herein, may that accrue to the Dāvaputra Shahi Huvishka, and also to those to whom the Dēvaputra is dear, and may the merit accrue to the whole earth. The perpetual endowment was given to the - rāka-guild, 550 purāna, and to the flourmaker-guild, 550 purāna.
No. 11. ADDITIONAL PRAKRIT INSCRIPTIONS FROM NAGARJUNIKONDA.
BY PROFESSOR J. PH. VOGEL, PH. D., LEIDEN. In addition to the important inscriptions from Nāgärjunikonda edited by me in this journal, Mr. Longhurst's excavations on that Buddhist site have yielded some more epigraphical documents which it is my intention to publish in the present paper. As regards the site, on which these records have been discovered, and the peculiarities in language and script noticed in them, I may refer to my previous article.
Ayaka-pillar Inscriptions belonging to Stūpa No. 5. At the south-eastern foot of the Nāgārjunikonda Hill and about two furlongs from the Great Stūpa or Mahächetiya there is a group of ruined buildings consisting of a monastery (No. 4), a stūpa (No. 5), two apsidal temples and a roofless mandapa. The site of the stupa was marked by a large mound of brick débris overgrown with jungle and locally known as Itikarāļlabõdu. A pillar inscription from this site published under the letter G in my previous paper records the foundation of a monastery by a Queen Bhat(t)īdevā, who calls herself the daughter-in-law of Väsethiput(t)a Siri-Chatamüla, the consort of Madhariput(t)a Siri-Virapurisadat(t)a and the mother of Siri-Ehuvuļa-Chātamüla, who evidently was the then reigning king. The vihara, which according to this inscription was dedicated to the Masters of the Bahusut(t)iya sect, is no doubt the ruined monastery (No. 4) found on this site.
In the course of Mr. Longhurst's explorations two more inscribed pillars have come to light here. They are āyaka-pillars and must, therefore, have belonged to the stūpa No. 5. The information contained in these two epigraphs agrees with what is found in the pillar-inscrip
Looks almost like Puvishkasya.
Read sarvaye. Vol. XX, pp. 1-27.
Road - ot.