Jain Stupa and Other Antiquities of Mathura

Author(s): Vincent A Smith
Publisher: Vincent A Smith

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PLATE X.
ÂYAGAPATA, OR TABLET OF HOMAGE, SET UP BY THE WIFE OF SIVAGHOSHAKA.
A SEATED Jina occupies the centre of this tablet also, but in this case he has an attendant on each side. The symbolic ornaments are rather less rich and varied than in the examples previously described. The Jina in this case is unmistakeably Parsvanath, his head being canopied by his seven-hooded snake.
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The inscription at the base is much mutilated. The characters are of an archaic type prior to the Kushân era. What is left of the record reads as follows:
na.
Namo arahantana Sivagho [shaka] sa bhari [y].... nA "Adoration to the Arhats the wife of Sivaghoshaka." ("Epigraphia Indica," Vol. II, page 207
No. XXXI.)
The slab was found in January 1891.