Hathigumpha Inscription of Kharavela and Bhabru Edict of Asoka

Author(s): Shashi Kant
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The Inscription who passed it on to Dr. J.F. Fleet. In 1910 Fleet published certain corrections in Line 161 and Lüders also published a summary.2 In 1913 Prof. R.D. Banerji examined certain portions and in 1917 two inked impressions were again taken, one of which was published in the Journal of Bihar and Orissa Research Society, III, 4 (pl. I), and the other was sent to Dr. F.W. Thomas. Dr. K.P. Jayaswal discussed and read it on the basis of that impression in J.B.O.R.S., III, 4 (pp. 425ff.), and the next year he published a revised text of his reading after checking it from the rock itself.4 In 1919 Jayaswal and Banerji examined the inscription on the spot and H. Panday of the Archaeological Survey Department prepared a cast of which two paper impressions were also taken. “It is as successful a copy as the present condition of the original allowed it to be." It was published in 1927 in J.B.O.R.S., XIII. The cast and the paper impressions are preserved in the Patna Museum. In 1924, Jayaswal and Banerji went over the corrections and in 1927 and 1928 the former published the results of his further studies.5 In 1929 Dr. B.M. Barua also edited this inscription at No. 1 in his Old Brāhmi Inscriptions in the Udayagiri and Khandagiri Caves. Sten Konow,6 Thomas, Muni Jina Vijaya and R.P. Chanda also added some useful information.
A somewhat definitive stage in decipherment was marked by a fuller discussion of its palaeography by Banerji in the Memoirs of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, X (pp. 133ff.), as also
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.
J.R.A.S, 1910, pp. 242ff, 824ff. E.I., X, App., pp. 160-61 (No. 1345). Banerji's Note is on pp. 486ff. therein. J.B.O.R.S., IV, pp. 364ff. J.B.O.R.S., XIII, pp. 221ff. ; XIV, pp. 150ff. Acta Orientalia, I, pp. 12ff. J.R.A.S., 1922, pp. 83-84. Quoted in E.1., XX; also his letter in Anekânta, 1, 6-7, p. 351. I.H.Q., 1929, p. 395f., 595.