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of the mendicant Nagadata (San. Någadatta), a In like manner, the inscriptions of Vasudeva resident of Taxila, (P) disciple of Acharya Dâma- furnish us the dates in his reign as under:tråta and grand disciple of Acharya Kavi, are Inscription No. 18.................. year 80 deposited. This repository of relics here in
No. 16.................... » 83 Damana (is that) of the worshipper Anandi
No. 20.................. 98 -the mistress of the Vihara, a Kshatri woman In these inscriptions this date is also called and mother of Luja. She together with her | retreat or 'in the year of Vasudeva.' family presented it; may this be for the welfare The largeness of the numbers in these shows and happiness of all sentient beings.
evidently that they cannot possibly be regnal REMARKS.
years; they must be the years of the era This inscription records the date on which the
continued from the reign of Kanishka. For relics of a mendicant called Nagadatta, who was this reason, instead of the literal translation of a resident of Taxila and disciple of the Achá- the phrases gfarar, ette, it might be rya Damatrata, and grand disciple of Acharya preferable to translate them as in such and Kavi, were deposited. The chamber in which
such year in the reigns of these kings. This the relics were placed was caused to be con- mode of writing dates was not uncommon at structed and given in charity by a Kshatri this period. In the Girnâra Kshatrapa inscriplady Anandi, who, it is said, did 80 for tion we have रुद्रदानो वर्षे विसप्तितमे, i. e. in the promoting the benefit and happiness of all seventy-second year of Rudradâman,' so also in an living creatures. The date was in the 11th inscription from Gunda in Käthis wâd, we read year of the great king Kanishka, which pro- fert
T r ad, or in the one hundred and bably was that of his reign. It was usual to second year of Rudrasinha' Froni these it is date from the day of the installation of the evident that the above cannot by any means king after whom such eras were called ; and be regnal years but years of some unknown era from the smallness of the numeral of this date current in their reigns. It is therefore very the probability seems to be that it is the date probable that the cases of Huvishka and Vâsuof this king's reign. General Cunningham's deva's years are similar. From these dates we fourth inscription of Mathura, however, raises may also infer that Kanishka, Huvishka and a doubt regarding this inference. In it, we read Vasudeva reigned one after the other. But
r t & TRT , i.e. in the year we meet with a difficulty as to this infer. ninth in the reign of Kanishka, which might ence by the inscription No. 8 in which it is not be one of his reign, but of some era which clearly written alle a vy and in was being continuod in his reign. But as another inscription found by me at Mathura, General Cunningham explains from the Mathura there is a date in the 44th year of Huvishka. inscriptions that Huvishka and Vasudeva were Also in General Cunningham's inscription No. his successors, it seems likely that they con- XV the date in the reign of the last mentioned tinued to observe the same era in their reigns. king is clearly the 45th year. This leads us to The Mathura inscriptions furnish dates in ask whether Huvishka and Vasudeva ruled Huvishka's reign as under :
simultaneously, but if so, the reign of Vasudeva No. IX. .............................year 39 becomes of unusual length, indeed quite beyond An inscription found by me... 44 the limits of possibility. Under these cir
No. XV. .......................... 48 cumstances there are doubts leaving room for These dates are called दुविष्कस्य संवत्सरे or further investigation. The discovery of more in the year of Huvishka.'
inscriptions will perhaps clear up this obscurity.
a
THREE INSCRIPTIONS FROM RAICHOR.
BY E. REHATSEK. Before giving the texts and my translations that Raichor is an old fort in the Nizam's of the inscriptions-very beautifully photo- territory forming the southern point of a nearly graphed by Mr. F. B. Hanna and sent to me equilateral triangle of which Sholapur is by Dr. Burgess-it will be proper to state at the western and Haiderâbâd at the eastern
Vide Cunningham's Arch. Report, vol. III. pl. zv. p. 30.
