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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
(JULY, 1876.
पुत्र
5 कयथाभिलषितफलावाप्तिनिमित्तमाचन्द्राकार्णवक्षितिसरित्पर्वतसमकालीनं 6 पौत्रान्वयभोज्यं ब्रह्मदेयमनुज्ञातं यतोस्योचितया ब्रह्मदेयस्थित्या भुंजतः प्र7 दिशतः कर्षापयतः कृषतो वा न कैश्वित्स्वल्पाप्याबाधा कार्यास्मद्वजैरागामिनप- *
तिभिश्वानियान्यैश्वव्ण्यस्थिरं मानुष्यं चावक्ष्य सामान्यं च भूमिदानफलमवगच्छद्धि" इयमस्मदनुमतिरनुमन्ताव्या' यश्वाच्छिन्द्यादाच्छिद्यमानं वानुमोदेस पचभिर्महाप10 तकैस्सोपपातकैस्संयुक्तस्स्यादिपि चाव व्यासगीत: लोको भवति षष्टि वर्यसहस्रा11 णि स्वर्गे मोदति भूमिदः आच्छेत्ता चानुमन्ता च तान्येव नरके वसेदिति 12 स्वहस्तो मम महाराजध्रुवसेनस्य दूतकः प्रतीहारमम्मकः लिखितं किककेन
no (pon) Aira yo (6) B.-The Grant of Guhasena.
of the Valabhi dynasty already favoured the The grant of G uhasena is inscribed on two Bauddha faith. This Bhatárka Vihara must plates 14' by 9" each. The ring and seal afterwards have been alienated from its original which held them together are preserved, and the destination, as the phrase rajasthánlyasardya latter shows the usual cognizance, the reclining prasádikrita shows. bull with the inscription Sribhatárkkah. As the Mimmi was, no doubt, like the venerable seal has been forcibly torn out of its place, the Dudda, whose name occurs in the formerly pubparts of the plate adjoining the ring-holes have lished grants of Dhruvasena I. and Guhasena. been damaged. Both plates are thickly covered a Bauddha nun. with verdigris. Very few words only on Plate | The object granted is VatasthalikäpräytyabaI. are legible. But these suffice to show that humilagráme kutumbisya maneragopakachhendu. the grant was dated from Valabhi, and that the vakaddsaklstrdyah (1.5), which I translate first plate gave nothing but the varsávali from tentatively by the income (dya) (to be paid) Bhatarka to Dharapatta, such as it is known by the Kanabi Syåmanera, the herdsman to us from the grants of Dhruvasena I. and Chendavaka, and the Dasaka Astra in the Dharasena II. Plate II. begins with the last village of Bahumúlâ belonging to Vatasthalikportion of the description of the grantor, G 2- pråya (?)." hasena. There it is that the most interesting The date is the 14th day of the dark demistatement occurs. For in line 2 the illustri. lunation of Abvayaja of Samvat ng it , which ons king Guhasena is called Paramopásaka, possibly may be 268. The second sign is,
the ardent devotee of Buddha,' whence it ap- however, read 40 by General Cunninghamt and pears that this ruler was actually converted to Pandit Bhagvinlâl Inderji, and 50 by Professor Buddhism. In the grant formerly published (Ind. Bhåndirkar. I have given the reason whicla Ant. vol. IV. p. 174) he still professed Saivism inclined me to read it 60 in the Ind. Ant. vol. and called himself Paranamdheśvara.
IV. p. 174. I think that the question does The donee is (11. 6-7) the "community of require further consideration, but that more foreign monks belonging to the eighteen schools plates are required in order to decide it. The (of the Hinayana) and living in the A bh yan. last sign has been taken for 6 by Professor tarik & Vihara or monastery, which had been Bhandarkar. But the sign for six is 4. My built by the venerable Mimmâ, and was situat- reading was suggested by a remark on the subed close to the monastery of Bhatdrka presented ject which Pandit Bhagvanlal made to me last to the Rajasthåniya Súra" (1. 7). If the reading year. Bhatarka were quite certain, it would be of Among the officers to whom king Guhasena some interest, as it would prove that the founder addresses his commands there are two not
• L. 7, read °**°. L. 9, read fra G † Jour. Beng. As. Soc. HET9° L. 10, read fara #;
I See Jour. Bo. Br. R. As. Soc. vol. X. p. 69.
