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32 The Hāthigumpha Inscription and the Bhabru Edict (that is, the Twelve Angas, (which has been) gradually declining (in volume) since the year 165. He (is a) peaceful king, he (is a) wise king, (a) mendicant king (and a) righteous king (who) questions about, listens to (and) meditates upon the wellmeaning scriptures.
J- Arhat, on the top of the hill,.... with stones... brought from many miles
(yojanas) quarried from excellent mines (he builds) shelters for the
Simhapatha Queeen Sindhulā.... L 16 .... Patalaka(?)....(he) sets up four columns inlaid with beryl... at the
cost of seventy-five hundred thousands; (he) causes to be compiled expeditiously the (text) of the seven-fold Aṁgas of the sixty-four (letters). He is the King of Peace, the King of Prosperity, the King of Monks (bhikṣus), the King of Religion (Dharma), who has been seeing, hearing, and realising blessings (Kalyanas) -
For the honoured recluses of well-established reputation and the Jñātskas (?) viewing all things alike (and) the monks(?) belonging to (different) orders (and) coming from a hundred directions, with hundreds and thousands of stones quarried out of excellent quarries (and) collected from an area extending over) many yojanas by expert heads, (His Majesty caused) indeed (to be made) sleeping-and-sitting accommodations fitted with artistic pillars(?) on a slope near the Arhata resting place, and caused the columns to be set up in a beryl-set hali with an ornamental courtyard at the cost of seventy-five hundred thousand (pieces of the standard coin), and in sixty-four panels, intersected with sculptures, caused to be produced the scenes of) peaceful music. The king of severity was he, the king of prosperity, the king of renunciation, the righteous king, (capable) of perceiving, hearing and
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