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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
[May, 1886.
the tiger was highly pleased at the hospitable rubbish, and thus the tiger was effectually preway in which he was received.
vented from doing any more mischief. There was a ruined well at the back of the | But the Brahman girl, in memory of her hav. house, and the eldest of the brothers placed ing married a tiger, raised a pillar over the well some thin sticks across its mouth, over which and planted a tulasí shrub on the top of it. he spread a fine mat. Now it is usual to ask Morning and evening, for the rest of her life, guests to have an oil bath before dinner, and so she used to smear the pillar with sacred cow. his three brothers-in-law requested the tiger to dung and water the tulasí shrab. take his seat on the fine mat for his bath. As This story is told to explain the Tamil soon as he sat on it the thin sticks being proverb " Summa irukkiraya, suruvattai ká. unable to bear his weight gave way and down tta!! uma," which meansfell the cunning tiger with a heavy crash! The "Be quiet, or I shall show you my original well was at once filled in with stones and other shape."
THE SUNGA INSCRIPTION OF THE BHARHUT STUPA.
BY E. HULTZSCH, PH.D.; VIENNA. I re-edit this wellknown inscription from mentioned, according to General Cunningham, the original pillar, which, along with most of in one of the smaller Bharhut inscriptions." the treasures discovered at Bharhuc by And he deduces from his transcripts* and General Cunningham, is now preserved in the eye-copies of a mutilated inscription from Indian Museum, Calcutta. The chief value of Mathura, that this Vadhapala was again sucthe inscription consists in the mention in it ceeded by one Dhanabhùti. But to this there of the Suigas,' the successors of the Mau. is the objection that the word putrasa, of the ryas; by which the Stúpa is proved to have son [of],' which, in that case, should stand existed in the second or first century B.C. between [Vadhapd]lasa and Dhanabhútisa, is The pillar in question was erected by a wanting. A mechanical copy of this inscription prince, Dhana bhùti, who was contemporary is much to be desired. with the Sungas,-probably one of their Vassals. His genealogy is given in the in
Prakrit Text. scription as follows:
['] सुगनं रजे रजो गागीपुतस विसदेवस Visadeva, son of Gagi.
[2] पीतेण गोतिपुतस आगरजुस पुर्तण Âgaraju, son of Goti.
[१] वाछिपुतेन धनभूतिन कारितं तोरना
[] MhHT a 3U? Dhanabhäti, son of Vâchhi. The custom, in accordance with which these
SANSKRIT RENDERING. three princes had second names derived from their mothers, deserves to be noted, as it was
[१] शुङ्गानां राज्ये राज्ञो गार्गीपुत्रस्य विश्वदेवस्य adopted by the Andhras,--the successors of the [] au finger :(?) giu Sungas, whose inscriptions contain the terms
[] वात्सीपुत्रेण धनभूतिना कारित तोरणं Gotamiputa, Vâsithiputa, and Madhariputa.
A son of Dhanabhūti, prince Vadhapala(?), is r7 FATICHETTET: 11
• A fragrant herb, held in great veneration by the Hindus ; Oeymum sanctum. This herb is sacred alike to Siva and Vishna. Those species specially sacred to Siva nre-Vendulaof; Siru-tulaal, and Siva-tulas; those to Vishnd are sendulast, Karundulas, and Vishnu-tulaal.
[The Baraod Chatri' of the Grand Trigonometrical Survey Map, Sheet No. 89. The correct spelling of the name appears to be Bharaut. The place is in the NA. gaudh Nagode') State in Baghilkhand six miles to the north-west from Uchahara (Uchera'), the chief town of the State.-ED.]
That the Sungas are meant by the Sugas mentioned in the inscription, was first recogpised by Professor Bühler; see Archæol. Sury. Weat. Ind. Vol. V. p. 73.
Soo Bharhut Stupa, Plate lvi. No. 54, for an eye-copy of this inscription. The original has unfortunately not been transferred to the Indian Museum.
Archæol. Suru. Ind. Vol. III. p. 36; Bharhut Stupa, Pp. 16 and 190.
Archeol. Surv. Ind. Vol. III. Plate xvi.; Bharhut Stupa, Plate liii. No. 4. • Read art - Read उपनो.
