Epigraphia Indica Vol 27

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

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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA
(VOL. XXVII
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Sidham Patanē pu........[Apa-)
The text is too fragmentary to allow of being rasēliyānam ma ......
translated. The term pavajitikā, mean3 nam bhadamta-Namda cha.
ing a female ascetic', occurs twice in a 4 budhi upajhāyasa ...
votive inscription from Amaravati pub5 vardhaya pavajiti[ka] .....
lished by Dr. Hultzsch (Burgess, op. 6 kayan ayam cba .......
cit., p. 90, Plate LX, No. 50); E 1 Gahapat[i]no Savarasa putasu inahana- [This] ayaka pillur is the pious gift of the housevikasa Sivakasa.
wife U[t]tarada[t]tā Si[d]dha[t]thami[t]8 [bhajriyaya gharaniya Utaradataya
tā, the wife of the master mariner Sivaka, S[i]dhatham[i]taya sa-patikaya
the son of the householder Savara, 3 sa-duhutakāya sa-mit[ä]machaya ayaka-'
together with her hushand, her daugh(tha]bha (dē]yadhama
ter(s) and her friends and companions. The vowel-marks in this inscription are indistinct. Utaradataya should possibly be restored to Utara-duhutaya 'the daughter of V[t]tara '. Cf. duhutaya, duhutuya, sa-iluhutakusa in Amaravati inscriptions. The dvandva miltāmachcha (Skt. mitrāmātya) is usual in Pali. In the Amaravati inscriptions we usually find sa-mita-näti-bardhava.
No. 2.- BADAMI INSCRIPTION OF CHALIKYA VALLABHESVARA : SAKA 465
(1 Plate) R. S. PANCHAMUKHT, DHARWAR
The inscription edited below is engraved in an inaccessible part of a big cliff about 250 feet high, in the northern fort at the back of the Battērappa temple at Bādāmi in the Bijapur District. The spot where the inscription is found is not approachable either from the bottom or from the "top, being situated approximately 120 feet high from the bottom of the cliff. The hill-rock appears to have been cut through, east to west, forming a narrow path-way and the eastern outlet towards Tattukote and other gorges are closed by artificial brick walls rendering the fort impenetrable to the enemies. The record is incised on the northern face of this rock.
During my visit to Bādāmi in the last week of February, 1941, I discovered this inscription but no estampage of it could be taken then, on account of the difficulty of approach and for want of suitablo 4ssistance to devise means to reach the spot. I had to return disappointed, but in June 1941 I gathered assistance from the local bee-acarers who are expert scalers of hill-rocks for collecting honey, and managed to have a beautiful estampage of the epigraph taken by a mechanic of my office. In the meanwhile, however, the discovery of the inscription had been announced in & press communiqué about the middle of June, 1941, by the Director General of Archaeology in India, New Delhi, who had been furnished with a photograph of the same by the Superintendent, Archæological Survey, Western Circle, Poona. On an enquiry, the late Rao Bahadur K. V. Dikshit, the Director General of Archeology, informed me that "Mr. Joglekar who was deputed to photograph some conservation work, also took a photograph of the inscription, the existence of which he knew from the Public Works Department Karkun, Mr. M. S. Sankannavar. There is,
The inscribed fragment is now in the house of Sri Vemuri Venkayyn, ex-President of the local Panchayat Board.
* Tho insortbed slab is now in the house of Sri Gorripäti Venkntauubbnyy.
Road dyalba.