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Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
Shri Mahavir Jain Aradhana Kendra
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BUDDHISM IN KASHMIR
ARCHÆOLOGICAL SURVEY AND EXPLORATIONS In 1908 Sten Konow was deputed by the Government of India to search for inscriptions and objects of archaeological interest in Kashımir. In the course of his survey, he noticed at the village Uskur (Hushkapura) the ruins of a stūpa about 400 yards to the west of the village and took it to be the one referred to by Ou K'ong as Moung-ti Vihāra.' He expected that the other two places Zukur and Kanespur, if excavated, would bring to view similar ruins. He noticed at Khādaniyār the ruins of the monastery built by queen Khādanā (ante, p. 28) and discovered a stone inscription in a Brahmin's house at Angom (Hādigrāma). It is written in Sāradā characters in Sanskrit and runs thus :
१ नमो भगवते आर्यावलोकितेश्वराय त्रैलोक्यालोकभूताय · लोका२. भवच्चिदे [x]जगदानन्दचन्द्राय लोकनाथाय ते नमः। प्रागगङ्ग श्वर सन्नि३ धौ सुमतिमानन् वैद्य अोल्हनदेवाभिदश्चक्र दारुमयं विहारममलं श्रीलोकनाथसम्पदं
afent fi४ ह नृपेण कालवसतो दग्धेथ पाक्कष्टिका-श्रेष्ठ तद्रत कुल्लदेवतनयामु रामदेवो व्यधात्
५ सं ७३ मार्गशुति ५"Salutation to the exalted noble Avalokitesvara. Salutation to thee, the Lord of the world who has become a light to the three worlds, who puttest an end to transmigration, who art a moon of delight to the world.”
"Formerly a Vaidya Ulhaṇadeva by name made a spotless shrine of wood, an abode for the lord of the world in the vicinity of the Gangesvara temple. After they had been burnt by king Simha through the will of fate, Rāmadeva the son of Kulladeva
1 See his Notes on a Tour in Kashmir, 1908, p. 2; ASR., 1915-16, p. 50. In the beginning of the 8th century a stūpa and a vihāra were built here by Lalitāditya Muktāpida (Kallhana, iv, 180).
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