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slo. 24) SANGSI MEMORIAL INSCRIPTION
129 XX This piece has the beginning of an epigraph--the blank space on the right shows that no writing has been lost in the beginning. The extant portion has four almost complete letters and remnants of a fifth. They read:
Sanghe sado... The e-stroke in ghe is ornamentally treated. The next letter is partly effaced, but it is most probably a sa. The first word means ' in the samgha or congregation', while it is difficult to say. what follows
XXI This fragment has remnants of about six letters only three of which (first, second and fifth) can be read with some confidence.
shye cha....de.... No sense can be made out.
XXII The inscription on this piece is almost completely obliterated. Two of the letters towards the end can be read as:
na sa This piece has a sign consisting of three triangles embossed near the neck of the pot, which may be an Armenian character.
XXIII This piece has also the so-called Armenian character near the neck of the pot. The Kharoshthi painted inscription is mostly damaged, but it ends in :
danamu[khe] Only the upper part of the last syllable is preserved. While the form of mu is peculiar, it is met with in certain known Kharöshthi inscriptions. The word danamukhe means the gift'.
XXIV While the inscriptions on the other fragments are all painted, the one on this piece is engraved. It has the concluding part of an inscription; or perhaps the extant part is the complete inscription itself. The space left blank after the last letter shows that in any case nothing has been lost at the end. It clearly reads:
Budhamitrasa It can be translated as '[This cup is) of Budhamitra'.
No. 24SANGSI MEMORIAL INSCRIPTION
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P: B. DEBAI, OOTACAMUND Sängai is a village about five miles from Gagan Bāvda in the Kolhapur District of the Bombay Sute. It is not known when, but it must be several decades ago, at least, that a slab of stone
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